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Friday, May 15, 2009

The One-, Three-, Six- and Twelve-Month Eurodollar LIBOR Yields All Sank Lower On The Day and The Week

The one-, three-, six- and twelve-month Eurodollar LIBOR yields all sank lower on the day and the week. The TED spread followed suit and narrowed on both the day and the week.

image courtesy: The Wall Street Journal
Image courtesy The Wall Street Journal Online


Right now, the yield on the 3-month U.S. Treasury Bill is 0.155%. Therefore, the TED spread is currently 0.67063 percentage point; it was 0.69938 yesterday, 0.7725 last Friday and 4.34 on October 15, 2008. For the TED spread, a figure between zero and 50 basis points (50 basis points = 0.50 percentage point) 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, and therefore not subject to regulation by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

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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