Correspondent Blog

Through most of 2025, the Fed Funds futures market has been predicting multiple imminent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Many banks have bet their budgets on a lower cost of funds and better credit performance. While this market was consistently forecasting rate cuts just a few months in the future, those cuts did…

A yield curve is a relationship between yield and different maturity dates. The yield curve’s slope can provide insight into future interest rate changes and economic activity. There is much discussion in the market about the current inverted yield curve between the two and ten-year Treasury yields. However, for bankers, the critical dates on the…