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 the next five years, investors…
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 the next five years, investors…
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 but may give a more…
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 led economists to push back…
By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – A flurry of investment banks raised their forecasts for where euro zone interest rates will peak, after the European Central Bank signalled on Thursday…
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 declines, as investors were unable…
(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 rate-hike cycle ending anytime soon.…
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – Federal Reserve interest rate policy has moved beyond the level called for by commonly followed monetary policy rules, according to a report released on…
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 euphoria in Chinese markets has…
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors and strategists are ramping up expectations for how much the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in its effort to bring down…
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 stance on fighting inflation despite…
By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – Interest rate hikes in the United States and the resultant pressure on the rupee is likely to give the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)…
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 its chair Jerome Powell at…
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Tom Westbrook and Dhara Ranasinghe NEW YORK – Expectations for how drastically central banks need to tighten monetary policy to fight soaring inflation have taken another…
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 rates that supported the dollar,…
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 succeeding in tightening some financial…
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 on Friday, as more hawkish…
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 its aggressive stance to combat…
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 in faster monetary policy tightening…
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 course on interest rate hikes…
– 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 pressures and a more hawkish…
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, as policymakers sought to keep…
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 ramped up expectations for how…
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 European Central Bank acknowledged the…
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – Investors sold U.S. corporate high-yield and investment-grade bonds on Friday, moving in step with weakness in equity markets and in a sign of risk…
By Saikat Chatterjee SINGAPORE -Strategists at the world’s top investment banks scrambled to change their Federal Reserve rate calls on Thursday after policymakers emphasised at a policy meeting that it…