Front-end rates: how are you reading the short end?

The short end of the yield curve prices the next few central bank meetings, and its moves are the market's fastest read on policy expectations.

Front-end rates: how are you reading the short end? — pip movement diagram
How a pip moves the exchange rate

How do you track it?

  • the instruments or rates you watch
  • what the front end is pricing now, in your read
  • how it reaches your pairs
Front-end rates: how are you reading the short end? — central bank rate path diagram
A central bank's policy rate path across recent meetings

Background: bond yields and exchange rates.

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