Insights

From TOMO to POMO and a lower fed funds target range, it’s taking measures to keep the markets on a steady keel.

Fluctuating rates may impact other forms of income but dividend payments aren't likely to be affected.

Portfolio Manager Nick Tripodes explains how he’s positioning portfolios for the current rate environment.

Access to credit markets with reduced rate risk, for starters.

Don't overlook the income potential of dividend stocks.

But with pressing issues such as the repo market to address, it can't relax.

The Federal Reserve cut rates by a quarter point but it will take more negative news to do so again this year.

Portfolio Manager Steve Chiavarone offers investment ideas for the current low-rate environment.

In the search for alpha, yield-curve positioning, currency and security selection take center stage.

Decelerating growth and rising geopolitical worries are bond friendly.

Not fondly, but so that overnight trading works smoother the next time it is flooded with supply.

As was the case when first looking at the issue eight years ago, the answer is no.

It will inject more cash into the liquidity markets to alleviate trading pressure.

Will the quarter-point reduction be the last one this year?

Bond yields have reversed much of the August decline. The reasons are many.

How are rate cuts affecting liquidity products?

Corporate bonds in South America, South Korea and India look attractive.

The Fed leader successfully addressed several issues weighing on monetary policy.

From here, they could break either way. But Federated's base case remains a recession isn't imminent.

Rate cut shows Fed still unsure of the right policy level.

Rate cut seen as preventative medicine in the face of global uncertainties.

A quarter-point cut is baked in. But a half-point? The market likely would love that.

Senior Portfolio Manager Randy Bauer outlines how the limited interest rate risk and low volatility of ultrashort bonds can support investors regardless of market, rate and economic cycles.

How will earnings, tariffs and interest rates affect the markets?

We're looking to the yield curve, currencies and security selection for alpha.

Only 0.1% of investment-grade companies defaulted in the last 35 years.

Would more than one rate cut undermine cash as an attractive asset class? Probably not. Debbie Cunningham explains.

Fed holds off for now but signals rate cuts are at the ready.

All the angst over tariffs and trade belies a consumer who is doing just fine.

Many reasons to expect inflation to remain low for longer (... Jones? Think The Monkees).

Policymakers hewed to their policy of 'patience.'

Risks between upward and downward moves appear relatively balanced.

After a strong first quarter, high yield and other credit securities settle into a clip-the-coupon environment.

The Fed essentially used the March meeting to reboot its message after its dramatic policy shift over the last two quarters.

By most measures, a recession isn't in the cards anytime soon.

The FOMC statement confirms the dramatic shift in Fed expectations since late 2018.

With no hike expected, markets will look to changes in the dot plot and balance sheet taper for answers.

Inflation shows little sign of breaking out. Until it does, it's difficult to see long rates breaking up in any significant manner.

Fed's Powell wants the markets to forget his vacillations of late 2018.

Fed Chair Powell should have let the statement do the talking.

The Fed kept rates steady, making markets happy with a dovish pause.