Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era

Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by kasey_junk on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:35PM (#10746660)

Treasuries always dry up in front of fed announcements. It's marked on the calendar like job numbers and other macro items that can cause wild swings.

Its much cheaper to just not trade during those times than it is to build out the models/risk management components for most market makers.

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by theseatoms on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:38PM (#10746684)

In other words, the price of liquidity is much higher when impacting news (for any given security) is expected during market hours. To me this seems like a desired feature of properly functioning markets.

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by vinceguidry on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:29PM (#10747069)

I'm home shopping at the moment, and my mortgage broker told me that he noticed a large hike in mortgage rates, is that due to this announcement and that I should wait a few weeks before locking in a rate?

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by eli on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:31PM (#10747513)

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/16/why-the-fed-move-doesnt-matte...

Trying to time the market is tricky business.

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by scarletham on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:20PM (#10747808)

Equities dry up as well. Pretty much everything dries up before FOMC announcements.

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