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Bond Traders Reject June as `Live' Meeting as U.S. Job Gains Ebb
Bond-market traders and strategists are starting to tune out the authorities they once looked to for guidance on the path of interest rates as economic data fall short of forecasts. Futures traders have all but ruled out the possibility that the Federal Reserve will raise rates at its next policy meeting in June, even after several officials this week said they were still considering that option. Economists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. pushed back expectations for the next rate boost to September from June after a report Friday showed the U.S. added fewer jobs than forecast last month. The ... (full story)