Barclays Expects Two Rate Cuts By Fed In 2025

March 13, 2025

Catenaa, Thursday, March 13, 2025- Barclays expects two quarter rate cuts this year, brokerage said on Thursday, with softer US labor market conditions. The brokerage is expecting two quarter-point rate cuts in June and September. It had earlier projected one 25-basis point cut in June. “The softer labor market causes us to add another rate cut, despite […]

Hedge funds back to levered trade that went bust in 2008

February 27, 2025

Catenaa, Thursday, February 27, 2025– Hedge funds are using a diversified investment strategy that seeks to juice returns through leverage more than a decade after it blew up during the 2008 financial crisis, a Bloomberg report said on Thursday. The report said that the approach, widely known as “portable alpha,” uses derivatives to track returns of long-only […]