The company launched four funds earlier this summer called the Rydex SGI Event Driven and Distressed Strategies Fund, the Long Short Interest Rate Strategy Fund, the Long Short Equity Fund and the Alternative Strategies Fund.
Since December 2008, the central bank has kept its short-term interest rate target at 0.00%-0.25%.
At a zero short-term interest rate, the central bank would have to work on adjusting longer-term rates.
Economists also expect the Federal Reserve to cut even further the short-term interest rate, now its lowest in decades.
As for France, its short-term interest rate is close to Germany's, at 3.4%.
To influence demand, the central banks move a short-term interest rate up or down by adjusting the supply of bank reserves.
In December, it exhausted its supply of conventional monetary ammunition when it lowered its short term-interest rate to between zero and 0.25%.
It comes about because the Federal Reserve System, in its so far failed effort to stimulate the economy, has fixed the short-term interest rate at 0%.
Yields on Mexican short-term interest rate swaps were little changed after the minutes as investors stuck to bets that rates will remain on hold into 2014.
Then in September, the Fed cut its key short-term interest rate for the first time since 2003 by one-half percentage point from 5.25 percent to 4.75 percent.
The Fed has said it plans to keep its key short-term interest rate near zero at least until the unemployment rate dips below 6.5 percent from its current 7.6 percent.
The Federal Reserve's decision on September 29th to lower its main short-term interest rate by a quarter point is simply an injection of Vitamin B-12, meant to give a healthy economy a bit more vigour.
U.S. equity prices continue to rise as a benign short-term interest-rate policy holds sway.
Fewer than 700, 000 short-term interest-rate futures contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange just six years ago.
" On the other hand, when Fed officials push the short rate of interest down, the Fed is said to be "loose.
But last month, when the French futures exchange, Matif, opened electronic markets alongside its pits, trading in short-term interest-rate contracts quickly migrated to the computers.
Some seniors have been burned by cards with a short-term low interest rate followed by a high interest rate, so be sure to read the fine print and know how long the rate will last.
These involve selling short-term December 1999 interest-rate futures contracts and buying September 1999 and March 2000 ones, on the assumption that short-term rates will spike over the millennium because of extra demand for cash.
Economist suggests going short on oil and buying interest rate sensitive stocks.
But you go on to suggest that central bankers are powerless to stop the development of asset-price bubbles short of a blunt interest-rate increase.
Eurobanking means one short-term-interest-rate policy for all.
The interest rate on very short term Treasury securities is basically zero (under 0.1 percent).
Risk aversion also adds to interest rate costs on short term bank loans, and with Russia considered a risk investment, loan costs inevitably rise.
That is, the interest rate on Argentinean short-term paper, or the price of the peso on the forward market, reflects the risk of a surprise devaluation that will cost you a chunk of your capital.
Finally, realize that even in the current low interest rate environment, short-term, low-yield bonds offer the advantage of liquidity and little downside risk, allowing them to potentially play an important role in your portfolio.
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Primarily based on Eurodollars, U.S. Treasuries, swaps and other dollar-related instruments that customers can utilize to manage short, medium and long term interest rate risk, interest rate contracts are the largest class of financial products traded on CME Group.
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His bold decision to separate interest-rate changes from short-term political calculations has proved an unqualified success.
The U.S. has swapped its relatively long-term expensive debts for short-term ones with a low interest rate.
But it will certainly moderate an interest rate spike in the short-term, helping equity markets continue their rebound.
It works like this: the Fed buys long-term treasury bonds (which currently have a higher interest rate) rather than short-term ones.
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