{"id":27830,"date":"2023-04-28T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/traders-firm-up-bets\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T12:48:21","slug":"traders-firm-up-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/traders-firm-up-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders firm up bets on Fed rate hike in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     Traders of futures tied to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s policy rate on Friday firmed up bets the U.S. central bank will raise its benchmark rate a final time in May after the government reported core inflation rose 4.6% in March from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. short-term interest rate futures were down slightly after the report, reflecting about a 90% chance of a quarter-of-a-percentage-point rate hike in May. The current target range is 4.75%-5.00%.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Ann Saphir)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/traders-firm-up-bets\/an-eagle-tops-the-u-s-federal-reserve-buildings-facade-in-7\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0MN-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0MN-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Traders of futures tied to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s policy rate on Friday firmed up bets the U.S. central bank will raise its benchmark rate a final time in May after the government reported core inflation rose 4.6% in March from a year earlier. U.S. short-term interest rate futures were down slightly after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0MN-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27832,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions\/27832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}