Yield continued to climb in MMDT Cash Pool

July 12 2023

The Federal Reserve flashed mixed signals at its policy-setting meeting in June. For the first time in 10 straight meetings, policymakers did not raise the fed funds rate, leaving it in a range of 5-5.25%. But they also projected they would hike rates by at least an additional quarter point this year in their continuing effort to quell inflation. The MMDT Cash pool daily net yield climbed to 5.30% as of June 16, 2023.

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Article Falling in line

After 10 straight swings at the economy in the form of rate hikes, the Federal Reserve in June dropped it back into the toolbox by not raising the fed funds target range. But it updated its Summary of Economic Projections to suggest more hikes to come. The markets finally listened, helping to normalize the yield curve.

Deborah A. Cunningham, CFA
07/2023

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Variable and floating-rate loans and securities generally are less sensitive to interest rate changes but may decline in value if their interest rates do not rise as much or as quickly as interest rates in general. Conversely, variable and floating-rate loans and securities generally will not increase in value as much as fixed-rate debt instruments if interest rates decline.

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Effective Duration: A measure of a security’s price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. One of the methods of calculating the risk associated with interest rate changes on securities such as bonds.

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