2023-10-22 02:14:36 A surprisingly strong U.S. economy and conflicting signals from the Federal Reserve are adding to the wild swings in U.S. Treasuries. Market watchers expect volatility to only increase in the coming months due to geopolitical uncertainty and a surge in the supply of U.S. debt. U.S. Treasuries are considered the “world’s safest asset,” … Read more
2023-10-15 15:49:00 Traders in the world’s financial markets are bracing themselves for volatile market fluctuations. Continuing conflict in the Middle East has increased demand for haven assets and forced investors to rethink the outlook for global interest rates. In the foreign exchange market, attention will likely be focused on movements in the US dollar, Japanese … Read more
2023-10-11 17:02:00 Atlanta Fed President Bostic said there is no need to continue raising interest rates unless the pace of decline in inflation begins to slow. “I don’t think we need to do anything more with interest rates,” Bostic said in a speech at the Atlanta Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce on the 11th. If the … Read more
2023-10-10 08:00:00 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowers its global economic growth forecast for 2024, but raises its inflation outlook and will maintain tight policy until central banks can sustainably ease price pressures. I urged him to do so. In its World Economic Outlook released on the 10th, the IMF predicts that the global consumer … Read more
2023-10-09 13:33:04 Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President John Logan said the recent spike in long-term U.S. bond yields could reduce the need for the Fed to raise interest rates further. The president gave a speech at the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) conference held in Dallas on the 9th. According to the manuscript distributed … Read more
2023-10-06 17:33:00 The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is likely to be inclined to raise interest rates again by the end of the year, as the number of non-farm employees in the US employment report was significantly higher than expected. The number of employees in September increased by 336,000 from the previous month, and the … Read more
2023-09-28 12:39:59 According to the final statistics on the US real gross domestic product (GDP) for the April-June period (second quarter), growth in personal consumption has been revised downward to almost half of the revised figure. This mainly reflected a slowdown in spending on services. Key points U.S. consumer spending is set to increase at … Read more
2023-09-25 00:31:30 Small-cap and industrial stocks are falling in the U.S. stock market, a classic signal of a recession, but this is unlikely for now as stocks have already outperformed expectations this year. Some investors see it as nothing more than noise. The S&P 500 Capital Goods and Services Index has fallen 8% since peaking … Read more