The One-, Three- and Six-Month Eurodollar LIBOR Rates Slid Lower Today
The one-, three- and six-month Eurodollar LIBOR rates slid lower today, while the 12-month rate edged higher. The 3-month TED spread contracted.
Image courtesy: The Wall Street Journal Online
Right now, the yield on the 13-week U.S. Treasury Bill is 0.175%. Therefore, the 3-month TED spread is currently 0.25 percentage point; it was 0.26125 yesterday, 0.25938 last Friday and 4.60875 on October 10, 2008 during the peak of the global credit crisis.
For the 3-month TED spread, a figure between zero and 0.50 percentage point (0.50 percentage point = 50 basis points) is a strong indication that large, international banks are lending money to each other with confidence.
A Eurodollar is a U.S. dollar deposited in any bank outside the United States.
Click here for historical LIBOR values.
Click here for a chart comparing LIBOR to the Prime Rate and the target fed funds rate.
Click here to read about how U.S. Dollar LIBOR fixing works.
Image courtesy: The Wall Street Journal Online
Right now, the yield on the 13-week U.S. Treasury Bill is 0.175%. Therefore, the 3-month TED spread is currently 0.25 percentage point; it was 0.26125 yesterday, 0.25938 last Friday and 4.60875 on October 10, 2008 during the peak of the global credit crisis.
For the 3-month TED spread, a figure between zero and 0.50 percentage point (0.50 percentage point = 50 basis points) is a strong indication that large, international banks are lending money to each other with confidence.
A Eurodollar is a U.S. dollar deposited in any bank outside the United States.
Click here for historical LIBOR values.
Click here for a chart comparing LIBOR to the Prime Rate and the target fed funds rate.
Click here to read about how U.S. Dollar LIBOR fixing works.
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posted by Steve Brown | Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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