The Six- and Twelve-Month Eurodollar LIBOR Rates Fixed Higher Today
The six- and twelve-month Eurodollar LIBOR rates fixed higher today, while the 1- and 3-month rates remained static. The 3-month TED spread expanded.
Image courtesy: The Wall Street Journal Online
Right now, the yield on the 3-month U.S. Treasury Bill is 0.04%. Therefore, the 3-month TED spread is currently 0.21063 percentage point; it was 0.19563 yesterday, 0.21125 last Friday and 4.60875 on October 10, 2008 during the peak of the global banking 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 3-month U.S. Treasury Bill is 0.04%. Therefore, the 3-month TED spread is currently 0.21063 percentage point; it was 0.19563 yesterday, 0.21125 last Friday and 4.60875 on October 10, 2008 during the peak of the global banking 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 | Thursday, December 24, 2009
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