Interest Rates

Treasury teams should consider these three factors before using derivatives to hedge against the possibility that rates will rise.

The Federal Reserve prefers not to take the federal funds rate negative, but Chairman Powell has not taken that option off the table.

U.S. policymakers' use of LIBOR as the benchmark for the $600 billion Main Street Lending Program increases challenges of moving to a replacement rate.

Federal Reserve officials restated their pledge to hold the benchmark interest rate near zero and will keep buying bonds, judging that the coronavirus…

It also pledged to buy some $700 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds in response to fallout from the coronavirus.

Fed watchers increasingly predict that U.S. interest rates will soon hit zero.