Tag: Interest Rates
London’s FTSE 100 hits new high after BoE signals rate cuts
Britain’s FTSE 100 scaled a record high on Thursday after the Bank of England kept interest rates unchanged but investors cheered increasing indications that more [Read more about this post…]
Asian stocks: Asia stocks drift, dollar firm as Fed rate path pondered
TOKYO – Asian stocks lacked direction on Wednesday, while the dollar remained firm despite lower U.S. Treasury yields as markets assessed mixed signals from U.S. [Read more about this post…]
‘Priced to Perfection’ Starts to Unravel as Debt Markets Get Jitters
(Bloomberg) — Credit investors got a dose of economic and geopolitical reality this week as hawkish comments from central bank officials about borrowing costs and [Read more about this post…]
L’Oreal Gains Cap Third Week of Declines for European Stocks
(Bloomberg) — European stocks declined for a third straight week due to geopolitical tensions and worries about higher-for-longer interest rates. L’Oreal SA rallied after better-than-expected [Read more about this post…]
Treasury yields dip after surge higher following strong data and hawkish Fedspeak
Bond yields dipped slightly early Tuesday having risen sharply in recent sessions as rate-cut expectations were pared. What’s happening The yield on the 2-year Treasury [Read more about this post…]
Fed’s Goolsbee: Nothing needs to change in the data to justify rate cuts
The economic data doesn’t have to change in order to justify interest rate cuts, there just has to be more of it, Chicago Fed President [Read more about this post…]
No Fed pivot in sight as Powell addresses rate cuts on 60 Minutes
There was rampant speculation after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting last week about the timing and number of interest rate cuts this year. [Read more about this post…]
Powell says economy’s strength allows Fed to be careful about rate cuts
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Sunday said that the strength of the economy allows the Fed to be “careful” in deciding when to cut [Read more about this post…]
Stock investors fear ‘no-landing’ economy could spell trouble. What’s next?.
While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, relatively strong corporate earnings, and [Read more about this post…]
How those strong jobs figures could weaken Biden’s re-election prospects
President Joe Biden issued a statement Friday celebrating the latest blowout jobs report. They showed “another month of strong wage gains and employment gains of [Read more about this post…]
