After dropping nearly $25 following the highly anticipated speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, gold could be at risk of falling to $1,600 an ounce unless buyers step in to buy the dip, according to analysts. The Fed chair wants to avoid the mistakes of the 1970s, which is …
Read More »Bitcoin Falls On Powell’s Hawkish Remarks
The Federal Reserve chair said households and businesses should prepare for pain as the central bank works to bring down inflation.Bitcoin dropped almost 5% in value within no more than two hours following Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s long-awaited keynote address at the Fed’s Jackson Hole, Wyoming, economic conference on Friday.US …
Read More »US Equities Fall On Powell’s Hawkish Remarks
Stocks fell after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Fed will continue to raise rates to fight inflation in his Jackson Hole speech while The Fed’s favourite inflation measure shows prices have eased in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 302 points, or 0.91%. The S&P 500 fell 1.11% …
Read More »Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech, What Can Be Expected
Noticeably, traders, investors and economists have spent much of this week anticipating Jackson Hole Symposium which has now officially begun. Of course, markets are all waiting for the remarks by Fed Jay Powell which come at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, Eastern Time. Markets have got some economic data that come …
Read More »RBNZ Orr: At least two rate hikes to come
Adrian Orr, the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has stated that he thinks there will be at least another couple of rate hikes. This is being reported by Bloomberg TV covering Jackson Hole. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s speech is going to be key, but the bears …
Read More »T-yields retreat as markets cautiously Eying Jackson Hole
US Treasury yields slid on Thursday after hitting multi-week highs the previous session, as investors balanced their positions amid uncertainty as to what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell might say when he speaks on Friday at a global central bank conference in Jackson Hole.The bond market expects Powell to stick …
Read More »After Parity, How Low Could EUR/USD Go?
The chances for a global recession drive the demand for safe-haven assets, and traditionally the US dollar is one of them. From a technical point of view, the US economy has already entered a recession due to posting two straight quarters of negative GDP growth. The EUR/USD pair has broken …
Read More »Fed’s Bullard: Rates aren’t high enough now
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 …
Read More »Fed’s Harker supports rate above 3.4% and then ‘sit for a while’
The Federal Reserve should continue raising it benchmark interest rate until it is over 3.4% and then “sit for a while,” said Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker on Thursday.“We don’t need to rush way up and then rush way down,” Harker said, in CNBC interview from the Fed’s retreat in …
Read More »Real GDP contracts by 0.6% in Q2
The US economy contracted at an annualized rate of 0.6% in the second quarter, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis’ (BEA) second estimate showed on Thursday. This reading came in higher than the flash estimate of -0.9% and surpassed the market expectation of -0.8%.
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