Spread Betting on U.S. Rates

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Spread bets and CFDs on U.S. interest rates

Spread betting and contracts for differences on U.S. rates should consider that the Federal Reserve is expected to keep things steady as it announces its decision later today.  There was some speculation that the evidence that the economy is improving might prompt the Fed to increase interest rates. However, the economy isn't improving that much, and the <a href="http://www.fx360.com/commentary/boris/2251/does-adp-suggest-that-fed-will-stay-pat.aspx?aid=5704" target="_blank" title="Fed rate, U.S. interest rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets interest rates, economy">labour market in the U.S. is still quite weak</a>. Additionally, today the non-manufacturing data came in lower than expected, and that has some speculating that the Fed won't be quite ready to start raising interest rates yet. Indeed, many believe that it will be at least next year before the Fed begins raising interest rates. 9 application/xml false CFDs contracts for differences economy Fed rate spread bets spread bets interest rates spread betting U.S. interest rates Spread Betting on U.S. Rates Spread bets on interest rates http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4 GTB5 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 63.248.48.57 false true false false true 133529 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web