TOKYO — Asian shares declined Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week on a tumble as global markets’ expectations for higher interest rates continued to set the tone. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK...
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Do Serious People Still Take Seriously the Fed and ‘Soft Landings’?
Who is the most productive 3-point NBA shooter over the last two years? The nature of the question should quickly reveal it as a trick one of sorts. In other words, the answer isn’t Steph Curry. But t...
Bond Danger Builds With Fed Set to Break From Its Cautious Past
(Bloomberg) — The bond market, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Thursday, “is not looking like a very safe place to be.” Few investors would argue with that — except, perhaps,...
Bitcoin Slips Below $40k After Hostile Statements From Fed
Bitcoin, the flagship crypto slipped below $40K after the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States made hostile comments. Powell stated on Thursday that at the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee ...
Watch Fed Chairman Jerome Powell speak live at IMF debate
[The stream is slated to start at 1 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks Thursday on a panel presented by the ...
Cathie Wood Says Fed Won’t Hike as Much as Market Priced In
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Most Read from Bloomberg The Federal Reserve isn’t going to hike rates as much as m...
Stocks Succumb to Bond-Market Rout as Fed Inflation Hawks Circle
(Bloomberg) — A week that began brimming with economic optimism ended up caving in on stock bulls, who find themselves increasingly helpless in the face of determined Federal Reserve inflation f...
Will The Fed Cause A Recession?
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 30: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a … [+] hearing before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Novem...
Bitcoin retests $40K after stocks sell-off meets Fed balance sheet bust
Bitcoin (BTC) headed toward $40,000 on April 22 after a major retracement in equities speared bulls’ latest advance. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin sheds $3,...
Dow Plunges Nearly 1,000 Points In ‘Brutal And Ugly’ End-Of-Week Market Selloff Spurred By Hawkish Fed
Topline The stock market plunged for a second straight day Friday as investors continued to digest the possibility that Federal Reserve officials will act more aggressively than expected—potentially r...
Dow Plunges 800 Points In ‘Brutal And Ugly’ End-Of-Week Selloff Spurred By Hawkish Fed
Topline The stock market plunged for a second straight day Friday as investors continued to digest the possibility that Federal Reserve officials will act more aggressively than expected—potentially r...
Fed, 50 basis points as early as May according to Powell
In a statement, Jerome Powell hints that a 50 basis point interest rate increase is a possible option for the Fed. Powell’s Fed measures to curb inflation At the latest IMF (International Monetary Fun...
Bitcoin Falls Back To $40,000 As Fed Mulls Faster Rate Bumps
Cryptocurrency markets were sluggish Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated that interest rate hikes should be made “more quickly.” Powell also indicated that a rate hike of 0.5 pe...
Bitcoin drops to $40K as FED looks for faster rate hikes
Crypto markets fall as Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell states that they need to move “more quickly” in raising interest rates. Powell also expressed that a “0.5 percentage point interest rate increa...
Bitcoin Rise Loses Steam After Fed Comments
●Bitcoin (BTC): $41235, +0.23% ●Ether (ETH): $3027, −1.27% ●S&P 500 daily close: $4394, −1.47% ●Gold: $1954 per troy ounce, +0.06% ●Ten-year Treasury yield daily close: 2.92% Bitcoin, ether and go...
S&P 500, Nasdaq drop for second straight day after Fed officials discuss half-point rate hike
U.S. stocks fell Thursday as investors continued to monitor a steady stream of corporate earnings results against a backdrop of elevated inflation and further Fed policy tightening. The S&P 500 dr...
Powell Backs Front-Loading Fed Rate Hikes, Says Half-Point on Table
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell blessed a half-point interest-rate hike next month and signaled support for further aggressive tightening to curb inflation by noting that he sa...
Fed chief Powell backs moving more quickly on interest-rate hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday joined the chorus of U.S. central bankers who want to move faster on raising interest rates. “It is appropriate in my view to be moving a little more...
Fed Chair Powell Warns of 50 Basis-Point Hike, Recession Risks
Key Takeaways Chair Powell has indicated the FOMC’s increased willingness to raise interest rates more quickly, noting the possibility for a 50 basis-point hike. He also commented on how price s...
‘The Fed always screws up.’ This forecaster sees inflation peaking and U.S. stocks in a bear market by summer
Keith McCullough, founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management, has been bullish on gold, silver and utilities since the start of the year, when his investment-research firm’s economic models turned bea...
Fed may need to be even more aggressive fighting inflation as U.S. household cash exceeds debt for first time in three decades, warns Deutsche Bank
With U.S. households looking in good financial shape, the Federal Reserve may need to be even more aggressive raising interest rates to cool the economy and bring down high inflation, according to a r...
Jim Cramer names 4 stocks that can endure Fed tightening
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday named four stocks that he believes can keep investors steady through market turmoil. “As someone who thinks it’s a good idea to stay in the market, I&#...
Forward Prices In Commodity And Bond Markets Consistent With Rapid Slowdown In CPI
Commodity and Interest Rate Markets Anticipate Taming of Inflation getty Annualized CPI at 8%. Crude oil at $105/barrel. 10-year bond yields at 2.7%. These price levels that continually scroll over co...
The Fed and the fight against inflation
The Fed, which had initially decided to apply a three-stage policy of raising interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point at a time to combat inflation, has had to revise its plans. The Fed’s a...
Fed Double Hike Could Come Within Weeks
Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, during the National Association of Business … [+] Economics (NABE) economic policy conference in Washington, D.C, U.S., on Monday, March 21, ...
Will The Fed Cause A Recession? What You Need To Know
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in a belated response to an inflation that a year ago we were told was transitory and nothing to worry about. This segment of What’s Ahead warns that the ...
Famed economist says potential Fed inflation target of 3% would mean crypto going higher
Economist Mohamed El-Erian said recently that the Federal Reserve might be obliged to raise its inflation target from 2% to 3%, given the difficulty of bringing the current high levels down. He said t...
Crypto Will Go Higher Should Fed Raise Inflation Target: Top Economist
Yuri Molchan Mohamed A. El-Erian believes that hedge assets, including crypto, will rise in price if the Fed decides to increase inflation target to 3% Contents If Fed changes its inflation target Bit...
President Biden to nominate former Ripple adviser as Fed Vice-Chair for Supervision
US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Michael Barr, who served as a Ripple advisor from 2015 to 2017, as the Vice-Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve. The White House revealed this news ...
President Biden announces former Ripple adviser as pick for Fed vice chair for supervision
Following the withdrawal of former Federal Reserve Board governor Sarah Bloom Raskin, United States President Joe Biden has announced his intention to nominate former Obama administration official and...
The Fed Wants to Raise Rates Quickly, but May Not Know Where to Stop
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is shifting monetary tightening into a higher gear. His goal sounds straightforward—lift interest rates to “neutral,” a setting that neither spurs nor slows grow...