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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard recently published an analysis titled ‘Is Monetary Policy Sufficiently Restrictive?’ in which he compares the policy rate under the Taylor rule to the Fed’s policy rate. According to Bullard, “monetary policy is now in better shape after the rate hikes.” Bullard’s …

Wall Street closed mixed on Monday, with the Nasdaq helped by gains in Alphabet and Meta Platforms, while the S&P 500 ended near flat as investors refrained from big bets ahead of a fresh round of talks about raising the U.S. debt ceiling.President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin …

Two new issues have jolted the world markets. Bond insurance rates at Deutsche Bank increased, which is mimicking what occurred to Credit Suisse before it failed. Also, according to news sources, the US Justice Department is looking into European institutions, such as Credit Suisse and UBS, for allegedly assisting Russian …

The NZD/USD pair hovers around 0.6200 as investors await US ADP Employment. The pair also encounters an obstacle around the present rate 0.6200 as anxiety rises ahead of Fed Powell’s remarks on Wednesday. Fed’s interest rate hikes account for weaker projections for US employment data.On a different front, the reopening …

The EUR/USD pair has flattened again as the US session heads into the late afternoon. The pair fell from the 1.0394 high to the 1.0325 low on the day so far and steadies near 1.0340 at the time of writing. Growth stocks on Wall Street experience extended declines, overshadowing a …

At the time of writing, EUR/USD is down some 0.29% falling to a low of 1.0338; sliding from a higher of 1.0496. Risk currencies, such as the Euro are under considerable pressure as protests against COVID restrictions in China weighed on the overall market sentiment.The violent protests in major Chinese …

The US central bank needs to raise interest rates a bit further in order to maintain control over the country’s hot inflation in order to bring it back down toward the central bank’s 2% goal according to St. Louis Fed President James Bullard.On Monday, Bullard said that rates need to …

Federal Reserve’s president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis James Bullard: in a CNBC interview has said rates aren’t high enough now.Meanwhile, Fed funds futures traders are pricing in a 59% chance that the Fed will hike rates by another 75 basis points at its September …

The Federal Reserve will get prepared to hold interest rates “higher for longer” in case inflation continue to surprise to the upside, and market pricing will need to adjust accordingly, Fed’s St. Louis president James Bullard said on Tuesday who wants rates at 4% by the end of the year. …

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard explained, on Wednesday, that inflation at levels last seen in the 1970s and early 1980s is putting the US central bank’s credibility at risk and has been reiterating his call for the Fed to follow through on promised rate hikes to bring down inflation, …