{"id":178966,"date":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178966\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","slug":"fed-fund-futures-trading-sets-record-high-amid-quarter-end-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178966\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Fund Futures Trading Sets Record High Amid Quarter-End Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Investors are piling into futures tied to the Federal Reserve\u2019s benchmark overnight rate at a record clip amid the risk of strains in short-term funding markets at quarter-end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Volumes in fed funds futures, which traders use to bet on the path of the Fed\u2019s benchmark overnight rate, reached almost 500,000 contracts in the September maturity as of 10:30 a.m. in New York. That level surpasses the previous record for the first generic contract set on April 3, when President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariff announcement roiled markets. The futures started trading on the Chicago Board of Trade in 1988. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investors are piling into futures tied to the Federal Reserve\u2019s benchmark overnight rate at a record clip amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3995,28,157,102,2800,939,30351,112,2005,1343,9107],"class_list":["post-178966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-chicago","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-federal-reserve","tag-finance","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-markets","tag-new-york","tag-policy","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}