Monetary policy
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Treasury yields hold steady, with 10-year rate below 2.9%, as U.S. stock-market indexes open higher
Treasury yields were mixed on Friday amid a dearth of U.S. economic data after China’s central bank cut a key…
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A ‘summer of pain’? The Nasdaq Composite could plunge 75% from peak, S&P 500 skid 45% from its top, warns Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd.
The carnage playing out in the U.S. stock market on Wednesday is likely an amuse-bouche compared with the devastation on…
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Fed will keep raising interest rates until it is ‘confident’ inflation is moving down, Harker says
The U.S. central bank will continue to raise interest rates at a measured pace until policymakers are confident that inflation…
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Fed’s Evans says aggressive rate hikes needed to tame inflation
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Tuesday that aggressive central bank rate rises are needed to get…
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Here’s what a modern Volcker-style inflation fight could look like, SocGen says
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has begun talking about a “softish landing” for the economy as the central bank squares…
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Fed’s balance sheet runoff raises uncertainty for capital rules
The Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy shift could have an unexpected conflict with the central bank’s supervisory mandates for banks…
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Odds of ‘hard landing’ jump as stock, bond investors worry about economic growth, says Morgan Stanley
The probability of a “hard landing” for the U.S. economy has jumped, with stock and bond investors worried about slowing…
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Bernanke says he thinks inflation will come down later this year
““I guess that I still tend to believe that some of these forces pushing up inflation…will at least stabilize and…
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Shares of Hong Kong-listed property developers rise after China lowers mortgage rates
Hong Kong-listed property developers rose in early trade Monday, following a surprise move by China’s central bank to reduce mortgage…
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