The EUR/USD pair drops to 1.0916 as US PPI data slows and unemployment claims rise, strengthening the US Dollar. US Treasury bond yields fall with investors pricing in three rate cuts by the Federal Reserve by December 2023.ECB speakers emphasize slowing inflation in the Eurozone, with further rate hikes left …
Read More »ECB’s de Guindos: Markets can be wrong about the terminal rate
ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said he does not anticipate a euro-area recession in the coming years. According to de Guindos, the ECB’s last decision had very high consensus and markets can be wrong about the terminal rate.“I don’t believe anybody who names a terminal rate”, he added. In …
Read More »What is shorting and how can it work amid recession fears?
Leading investment firms are shorting US stocks as the global recession-linked fears become more and more severe. The approach is focused on shorting US stocks worth billions of dollars. This wave of selling short is a wager that the market would be under pressure as recession fears intensify. The possibility …
Read More »Sterling plunges after profit-taking selloff
Sterling pound dropped although the rate hike decision of BoE Thursday because of heavy selling from the part of bulls who focused on profit-taking to benefit from the highs reached immediately after the central bank decision. GBP/USD rose to 1.2610 in response to rate hike decision before declining to 1.2543. …
Read More »Sterling drops after BoE’s signals of inflation easing
Pound Sterling slides versus the US dollar after the BoE meeting. This comes after Andrew Bailey’s comments on easing inflationary pressures. BoE Chairman adds that inflationary risks are still skewed to the upside and secondary effects are persistent. The Pound experiences heightened volatility against the dollar following the Bank of …
Read More »US: Annual PPI rises 2.3% in April vs. 2.4% expected
The Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand in the United States grew 2.3% year on year in April, down from 2.7% in March, according to data released on Thursday by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. This number was lower than the market’s prediction of 2.4%. In the same …
Read More »Bank of England raises rates and Bailey promises to “stay the course”
The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.5% on Thursday and Governor Andrew Bailey said the British central bank would “stay the course” as it seeks to curb the fastest inflation of any major economy. The central bank is no …
Read More »BoE raises policy rate by 25 bps to 4.5% in May
Following its May policy meeting, the Bank of England (BOE) announced that it raised the policy rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 4.5% as expected. Two policymakers, Tenreyro and Dhingra, voted to keep the policy rate on hold at 4.25%. “If there were to be evidence of more persistent …
Read More »Futures edge higher on inflation cheer
U.S. stock index futures edged higher in the early hours of Thursday on lingering optimism over upbeat inflation data, while Disney took a hit as it lost subscribers in the prior quarter. The Nasdaq index ended Wednesday at its highest level in more than eight months, boosted by large-cap technology …
Read More »European stocks rose after falling for two days
European stocks rose on Thursday, led by media and travel stocks, as signs of declining US inflation gave some relief to investors worried about the impact of the Federal Reserve’s tightening monetary policy. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.5% by 0822 GMT, after two straight days of losses. …
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