Marketmind: BOJ waxes hawkish but Powell at centre stage
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee Signs of a hawkish tilt by the Bank of Japan prodded …
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Banxico holds key interest rate at 11.25%, keeps hawkish bias
By Brendan O’Boyle and Anthony Esposito MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The Bank of Mexico’s five-member board unanimously held the key interest rate at 11.25% for a …
Philippine central bank stays on hold, maintains hawkish tone
By Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine central bank kept its policy rate steady at 6.5% on Thursday, as expected, …
Analysis-Some investors see Powell’s hawkish lean as response to looser financial conditions
By Davide Barbuscia and David Randall (Reuters) – A hawkish lean from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell chilled a recent rebound in stocks and bonds, …
Fed’s Powell leans hawkish in IMF remarks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve officials “are not confident” that interest rates are yet high enough to finish the battle with inflation, and …
Australia’s central bank raises rates to 12-year high, tempers hawkish stance
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s central bank raised interest rates to a 12-year high on Tuesday, ending four months of steady policy, but left …
India cenbank seen holding rates steady Friday but striking hawkish tone
By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s monetary policy committee is widely expected to keep key rates on hold when it announces its decision on …
Hawkish Fed unwittingly stokes Treasuries ‘basis trade’ risks: McGeever
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve’s hawkish stance on interest rates, and determination to reduce its balance sheet, may inadvertently be stoking …
Analysis-Fed’s hawkish stance spooks investors, though some say peak rates near
By Davide Barbuscia and David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s plans for a prolonged period of elevated interest rates could continue pressuring …
US two-year Treasury yield rises to 17-year high on hawkish Fed
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -The yield on two-year U.S. Treasury notes rose to a 17-year high of 5.1970% on Thursday, a day after the …
Bank of Canada struck intentionally hawkish tone after last rate decision – minutes
By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada wanted to send the message that interest rates would not …
Analysis-U.S. stocks may not be ready for hawkish Powell at Jackson Hole, options data show
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investors may be underestimating the degree of potential market turbulence stemming from the Federal Reserve’s economic symposium at …
Market surveys show Wall Street expected less hawkish Fed outlook
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve forecasts released at the June monetary policy meeting laid out an outlook that was more …
Marketmind: Hawkish Powell keeps markets on defense
By Alden Bentley (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Alden Bentley, Breaking News Editor for Finance & Markets, Americas. …
Marketmind: ECB day to follow a hawkish Fed
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. A day after the Federal Reserve took markets by surprise with …
Marketmind: Can risk appetite resist Fed’s hawkish skip?
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. A raft of economic data …
Marketmind: A hawkish skip or a dovish pause?
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland There’s no escaping that it’s all about the Fed today. And …
Marketmind: Next up ECB: Will it be a hawkish 25 or dovish 50?
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan. The spotlight moves swiftly from the Fed’s “possible pause or pivot” …
Central Europe’s policymakers double down on hawkish message
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Central bankers across central Europe have doubled down on their hawkish policy messages in the past two weeks in …
India central bank set to raise rates 25 bps on elevated inflation, keep hawkish stance
By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s central bank is widely expected to raise its benchmark rate on Thursday for the seventh consecutive meeting and …
Global banking turbulence prompts Wall Street banks to trim hawkish Fed bets
By Susan Mathew (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs is expecting a pause this week from the U.S. Federal Reserve after a year-long rate increase campaign as …
As hawkish Fed pricing goes away, bullish dollar calls fade
By Karen Brettell (Reuters) – The collapse of two big U.S. regional banks has forced the U.S. bond markets into a near 180-degree turn from …
Hawkish Powell puts 50 bp Fed rate hikes back on table
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve will likely need to raise interest rates more than expected in response to recent strong data and is …
Hawkish ECB comments push up rate-hike expectations
By Leigh Thomas and Francesco Canepa PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank interest rates still have some way to rise, two influential policymakers said on …
BlackRock cuts Japanese stocks to “underweight” on hawkish BOJ risks
(Reuters) – BlackRock Investment Institute cut Japanese stocks to “underweight” on Monday, saying that a Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy change away from its “ultra-loose” …
Weighing up Ueda, investors cool on hawkish BOJ bets
By Tom Westbrook and Kevin Buckland SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – As surprise gives way to scrutiny of the men set to lead Japan’s central bank for …
Russia central bank to adopt hawkish tone, keep rate at 7.5% this week: Reuters poll
By Elena Fabrichnaya and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian central bank is expected to hold its key interest rate at 7.5% on Friday …
Brazil currency firms, rate cut bets pushed back by central bank’s hawkish outlook
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s currency firmed and interest rate futures jumped on Thursday as a more hawkish outlook from the central bank …
Investment banks ramp up peak rates forecasts after hawkish ECB
By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – A flurry of investment banks raised their forecasts for where euro zone interest rates will peak, after the European …
TSX hits 5-week low as Fed’s hawkish stance fuels recession worries
By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s main stock index slumped to a five-week low on Thursday, with the technology and materials groups leading broad-based …
Wall Street opens lower on angst over hawkish Fed
(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday as the Federal Reserve’s guidance to stick to protracted policy tightening quelled hopes of the …
U.S. Fed policy now more hawkish than policy rules suggest is needed
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – Federal Reserve interest rate policy has moved beyond the level called for by commonly followed monetary policy rules, according …
Marketmind: How to be hawkish by J.Powell
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. So Tuesday’s bout of post-pandemic …
Banks raise Fed terminal rate forecasts after Powell’s hawkish tone
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors and strategists are ramping up expectations for how much the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in …
U.S. yields climb as hawkish Fed concerns outweigh weaker economic data
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields climbed on Monday as investors remained concerned the Federal Reserve would maintain its ultra hawkish …
Hawkish Fed may prompt India’s RBI to deliver a 50-basis-point hike
By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – Interest rate hikes in the United States and the resultant pressure on the rupee is likely to give the …
Investors see no Fed pivot, brace for hawkish Powell message in Jackson Hole
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are bracing for the Federal Reserve to double down on its commitment to crushing inflation, and expect …
Global markets quake as central banks grow more hawkish
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Tom Westbrook and Dhara Ranasinghe NEW YORK – Expectations for how drastically central banks need to tighten monetary policy to fight …
Asia FX bears hit record high on hawkish Fed, China growth worries: Reuters poll
By Shashwat Awasthi and Savyata Mishra (Reuters) – Bearish bets on several Asian currencies hit a record high in the face of rising U.S. interest …
Analysis-U.S. real rates up on hawkish Fed but inflation risk looms
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – A jump in U.S. real yields back into positive territory is a sign that a hawkish Federal Reserve is …
Hawkish Fedspeak keeps dollar king, yen slumps to 20-year low
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO – The dollar rose to a two-decade peak against the yen and kept close to a two-year high to the euro …
Gold eases as dollar, yields rise after hawkish Fed minutes
By Asha Sistla (Reuters) – Gold inched lower in range-bound trade on Thursday, as the dollar and yields gained after the U.S. Federal Reserve reiterated …
Stock rebound wobbles as investors zero in on hawkish Fed
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK – The rebound that saw U.S. stocks surge from last month’s lows has started to falter, as investors factor …
U.S. dollar to stay dominant so long as Fed stays hawkish: Reuters poll
By Hari Kishan and Shrutee Sarkar BENGALURU – The U.S. dollar will remain dominant for now so long as the Federal Reserve stays a hawkish …
Goldman raises U.S. Treasury yield forecasts on more hawkish Fed
– Goldman Sachs said on Thursday that it has raised its forecasts on U.S. Treasury yields for this year, citing more broad-based and persistent price …
Mexico central bank hikes key rate, still hawkish under new leadership
MEXICO CITY -Mexico’s central bank on Thursday raised its benchmark interest rate as expected by 50 basis points to 6.00%, a sixth straight rate increase, …
Investors gird for more hawkish Fed after sharp inflation rise
By Devik Jain, Davide Barbuscia and Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK – Investors were bracing for more market volatility after a sharper-than-expected rise in consumer prices …
Deutsche Bank advises clients to buy euros after ECB hawkish pivot
LONDON – Deutsche Bank closed its short trade on the euro and recommended clients to enter into a long euro/dollar trade on Thursday after the …