Economic Report

With exports of petroleum products increasing between 2010 and 2022, the United States has emerged as a major energy supplier in the midst of Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) anticipates this trend to continue.The average US petroleum product exports increased by 7% to 5.97 million …

In March, the Bank of England (BoE) is expected to continue raising interest rates, albeit more slowly as the globe fights off threats to the financial system. On Thursday at 12:00 GMT, the BoE will make its interest rate decision public. It’s not a “Super Thursday” because neither the governor’s …

As US inflation is still high and as the banking sector encounters difficulties, and as both facts necessitate and demand opposite responses, the Fed is widely seen as stuck between a rock and a hard place ahead of FOMC meeting. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is still required to continue the …

In an emergency rescue agreement intended to quell the fear that the bankruptcy of two American banks earlier this month had sparked on the financial markets, Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, has agreed to purchase its struggling rival Credit Suisse. “UBS today announced the takeover of Credit Suisse,” the Swiss National …

Wall Street finished lower on Friday, capping off a turbulent week marked by an evolving banking crisis and the gathering storm clouds of a possible recession. All three indexes finished the session in the red, with financial stocks falling the most of the S&P 500’s major sectors. All three indexes …

Due to continuing worries about the condition of the US banking sector, investors reduced their holdings of First Republic and other bank shares on Friday, causing a decline in US stocks.First Republic dropped by almost 33% to finish the week down by almost 72%. That represented a change from the …

Getting prepared for hard times seemed to be a popular theme among Americans. As bank woes hit the news headlines, clients have started to signal more urgent concerns. A lot of it is post-traumatic stress recalling the bad memories of the global financial crisis in 2008. But the numbers today, …

At the time of writing, the price of one bitcoin is $26495. Bitcoin is on track for one of its largest weekly rises in recent memory, supported by bets on future interest rate reductions as the token weathers the financial sector’s turbulence.Since Monday, the biggest digital asset has increased by …

While investors’ attention shifts to looming Fed policy decision, the EUR/USD pair is performing sideways over 1.0600. At the time of writing, the price of the pair is 1.0613. The ECB’s 50 bps increase in interest rates has reduced the gap between its own and the Fed’s policy stances. Following …

The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to announce its decision on monetary policy on Thursday, March 16 at 13:15 GMT and as we get closer to the release time, here are the expectations as forecast by the economists and researchers of 5 major banks. ECB is likely to hike …