Excerpt from: Bonds and Interest Rates CFDs and Spread Bets
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| May 07, 2007 | | Midweek interest rate decisions from the Fed, ECB and BoE | Three of the world's major monetary policy bodies, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England are set to make interest rate decisions this week. Spread betting and contracts for differences could benefit from this information from Reuters:
They predicted
unanimously that the Fed would keep rates unchanged at 5.25
percent at its policy meeting on Wednesday. After the Fed's decision, the ECB and BoE set rates on
Thursday. The ECB is widely expected to keep rates unchanged at
3.75 percent before a hike to 4 percent in June, while the BoE
is expected to raise interest rates to 5.5 percent.
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