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The document titled "Economic Indicators" provides information on market rates and bond yields from October 2020 to October 2023. It includes data on reserve bank discount rates, prime rates, federal funds rates, Treasury bills, U.S. bonds, and municipal and corporate bonds. The information is sourced from the PwC Investor Survey and Moody's Bond Record. For more updated economic indicators, readers can visit the provided website. [Extracted from the article]

"While unfunded investors (a large share of the market) may be content with a modest yield pick-up over Treasuries, liquidity providers need margins large enough to beat their internal funding costs.""A While banks aren't the largest investors in the corporate bond market, they do play an important role in facilitating trades and providing liquidity for other investors. (Bloomberg) -- Last month's banking drama means a technical tidal wave may be coming for the biggest slice of the $10 trillion market for corporate bonds. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street money managers looking to pile back into Treasuries after months of losses will have to contend with a Federal Reserve that stands ready to raise the stakes every step of the way. Read more: Guggenheim's Minerd Sees No Fed Pivot, Expects Market "Damage" The 10-year Treasury yield rose around 6 basis points to about 4.1% Wednesday. [Extracted from the article]

The equity market, which posted its best week in a month, hasn't fully priced in a recession over the next year, Erin Browne, multi-asset strategy portfolio manager at Pacific Investment Management Co., told Bloomberg Television. (Bloomberg) -- Bob Michele, a bond market veteran for more than four decades, predicts a 75% chance of a US recession over the next 18 months, but thinks it's priced in. "Clients are returning to the bond market, especially corporate bonds", Michele, JPMorgan Asset Management's chief investment officer, said on Bloomberg Television's "Wall Street Week" on Friday. JPMorgan's Michele Says Bonds Have Recession "Priced In". [Extracted from the article]

Economists at Deutsche Bank use a financial conditions framework to assess how many more turns of the monetary wrench the Fed would need to return price pressures to their 2% target. Powell used the term "financial conditions" more than a dozen times at his post-meeting press conference in May, noting that officials "need to look around and keep going if we don't see that financial conditions have tightened adequately.". [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Expect Wall Street's biggest banks to flood the corporate bond market once they start reporting quarterly results on Friday, joining an army of issuers raising money before the Federal Reserve knocks borrowing costs higher. Even when the Fed isn't poised to hike rates, big banks usually try to raise a lot of money in debt markets in January. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- In a world riven by disease and credit risk, traders are betting central bankers will pin down global borrowing costs for years to come -- regardless of the consequences. "Central banks would step up very fast and ease the funding pressures for the banks by increasing the amount of liquidity", said Bob Stoutjesdijk, a Rotterdam-based fund manager at Robeco Institutional Asset Management. "Central banks have increased so much liquidity in the financial system and are on stand-by to do more so Libor rates will be contained, bar some seasonal spikes", said Stoutjesdijk at Robeco. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses strategies for buying bonds. The article suggests that the bond market and long-term interest rates are closely tied to the housing market. The article further discusses the relationship between jobs, income, consumption, and the bond market. High-yield corporate bonds are compared with U.S. and foreign government bonds and treasury notes. "Barbell" and "bullet" strategies are compared.

The article provides information on response of Gateway Program officials towards application for federal funds to cover project's costs. Topics discussed include views of John D. Porcari, interim executive director at Gateway Program Development Corp. on the same; Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery; and mammoth costs.

Municipals were weaker Monday, with yields rising two to five basis points, as U.S. Treasuries saw losses reversing Friday's rally, while equities ended in the red on continued geopolitical tensions between Russia and the Ukraine. "In addition, the Fed has recently focused on its dual mandate of maintaining employment and moderate inflation vs. its prior sole focus on its ill-advised 2% inflation ceiling." Researchers found that consumers have changed their views on inflation, with some "short-term movements in inflation expected to persist into the future", a New York Fed blog post said. [Extracted from the article]

The article looks at capital and bond investments in the U.S. as of September 1977, with particular focus given to the rise of the Federal funds rate and predictions about the economic consequences. The author discusses the yield of short and long term Treasury bills, corporate bonds, and the inflation rate.

The article focuses on the popularity of corporate bonds with investors. It states that the attraction of bonds is due to low rates and investor enthusiasm. It mentions that the U.S. Federal Reserve Board lowered the federal funds rate (FFR) target to 1% in 2003. It comments that FFR is what banks charge each other for overnight funds, and that this helps indicate the direction of interest rates.

Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS Group AG are leading issuers in selling about $14.2 billion in dollar-denominated debt corporate bonds, the most in more than a week, as declining Treasury yields encourage borrowing. U.S. company bond sales this year are already up 12 percent over the same period of 2014 to $450.6 billion, Bloomberg data show. UBS's sale, the biggest this year of dollar-denominated bonds by an overseas bank, included $2.5 billion in 1.8 percent notes due 2018 that yield 0.92 percent more than similar-maturity Treasuries, Bloomberg data show. [Extracted from the article]

Asian equities showed mixed responses to the increase in the federal funds rate announced by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday night, while bonds in the region held up reasonably well. But there are worries that the pace of rate hikes until the end of 2019 might be too aggressive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cifi Holdings Group Co added $300m to its existing 2022 bonds on Wednesday as it got ahead of the expected supply pipeline, but the real estate company was forced to pay a juicy premium for the deal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]