- Overnight interest-rate swaps imply a 38% chance of a quarter-point Federal Reserve rate increase, while remaining odds favor no change.
- Bloomberg data tracking from 2008 show that the Federal Reserve has never raised rates when swaps assigned less than a 60% probability to an increase.
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“Overnight interest-rate swaps imply about a 38% chance of a quarter-point increase, with the remainder of the odds favoring no change.”