Bond investors are anticipating a change in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy, with expectations of multiple rate cuts this year and the first since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Portfolio managers have increased bets on long-duration U.S. Treasuries ahead of the meeting, reflecting expectations that yields on those securities will decline as the U.S. central bank moves toward cutting rates.
As the economy slows, longer-duration bonds tend to outperform other assets. The Fed is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at the end of its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday, with some investors seeing a possibility that it could ramp up its dovish tone after it was perceived to have pivoted from a tightening policy outlook at its meeting last month.
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