Member Services Desk
Weekly Market Update
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Member Services Desk (MSD) Weekly Market Update. In response to member feedback and in an effort to provide our membership with valuable insight to help further your business goals, the MSD Weekly Market Update is designed to provide insight into current market trends and news and will be released every Friday.
If you would like to receive the MSD Weekly Market Update in .pdf format (includes FHLBNY rate charts) or to discuss this content further, please email the MSD Team.
Recent Weekly Market Updates
Market participants will contend with a crowded calendar of decidedly mixed economic releases in the upcoming week. Contracts to purchase a home likely rebounded at the end of last year, but prices received by sellers in major metropolitan areas slowed. Concerns about current economic conditions and prospects for the balance of 2025 probably weighed heavily on consumers’ spirits in February…
The statistical focus will shift to soundings on housing activity in the upcoming week. Homebuilder sentiment probably improved from negative to neutral this month. Weather conditions likely hampered new residential construction activity in January…
Having digested the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ employment situation report for January, the market will turn its focus to the inflation side of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate on Wednesday, especially with Fed Chair Powell slated…
A busy calendar along with a crowded slate of appearances by Federal Reserve officials will be on offer this upcoming week. Purchasing manager reports likely will show that both manufacturing and service-producing activity expanded together for the first time in over two years…
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting will be the highlight in the upcoming week. The recent strength in activity and labor markets, combined with limited progress in returning inflation gauges to the desired 2% target, suggest that the committee will hold the fed funds rate target range at 4¼% to 4½%…
Returning from the Martin Luther King Day holiday, market participants will face an extremely light economic release calendar. Adding to the exceptional quiet tone, Federal Reserve officials will observe the traditional blackout period on public communications ahead of the January 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting…
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