Economy

Analyst says BJP Maharashtra win positive for market, notes populist schemes' role
November 26, 2024 05:23 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Analysts say Bharatiya Janata Party’s decisive victory in elections in Maharashtra, a key Indian state would boost political stability and will be a positive sentiment for the marke

Fed may need to slow pace of rate cuts, Fed's Goolsbee says
November 22, 2024 07:23 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Thursday he sees lower rates ahead, though cautioned that the pace of cuts may need to slow amid uncertainty about where the rat

RBA Governor Bullock says rates high enough, focus on inflation
November 14, 2024 11:49 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com-- Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock said on Thursday that interest rates were restrictive enough, and will remain at current levels until the central bank was confident

Lighthizer, allies preparing to argue for steep new Trump tariffs - Politico
November 13, 2024 11:53 PM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com - President-elect Donald Trump's former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and people close to him are laying the groundwork to pitch the benefits of potentially aggressive tariff

Could Trump appoint a 'shadow Fed chair' to rival Powell?
November 13, 2024 07:27 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has made it clear that he is willing to remain in place even if President-elect Donald Trump demands his resignation, but could Trump appoint a “

Republican clean sweep will lead to fewer rate cuts, but economic grow to persist
November 09, 2024 09:45 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Republicans are looking increasingly likely to retain control of the House of Representatives, clinching a potential "clean sweep" after regaining the Senate and the White House, but

WATCH LIVE: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Press Conference
November 08, 2024 07:11 AM AEDT| By InvestingWatch Fed Chair Jerome Powell speak live following the FOMC decision to slash interest rates by 25 basis points.

'Trump trade' could reverse on signs Trump would lean hawkish on fiscal policy
October 31, 2024 06:49 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Reports that a second potential Donald Trump presidency could include fiscal hawks in his administration focused on aggressively cutting fiscal spending, threatens to shift and revers

BOJ preview: interest rates to remain unchanged amid political uncertainty
October 30, 2024 03:15 PM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com-- The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged at the conclusion of a meeting on Thursday, with heightened political uncertainty in the country likely clouding the cent

Fed balance sheet runoff to continue through Q2 2025 unless labor market stumbles
October 29, 2024 07:17 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- The Federal Reserve cut interest cut last month, the first since 2020, pushing the central bank into monetary policy easing mode, but that didn't filter through its balance sheet runo

Big risk to Fed cuts yet to come, UBS says
October 22, 2024 08:11 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Fed speakers have been echoing the need for gradual rate cuts recently amid a string of noisy data, fueling expectations that a pause could be on the table in one of the two remaining

Fed's Logan continues to call for gradual pace of rate cuts
October 22, 2024 08:11 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Dallas Fed president Lorie Logan said Monday she continues to see the need for gradual rate cuts toward a neutral level to help manage the risk of faster cooldown in the labor market

Fed's Kashkari sees modest cuts ahead, but says change in labor market holds sway
October 22, 2024 06:21 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Monday he expects modest rate cuts over the next few quarters, though added that evidence of a quicker slowdown in the labor market could

China’s MoF conference, fiscal stimulus talk- analysts weigh in
October 15, 2024 12:01 PM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com-- China’s Ministry of Finance over the weekend outlined hotly awaited fiscal stimulus policies intended to help support the economy, with analysts noting that while the signaling was p

Futures muted, earnings this week, Boeing job cuts - what's moving markets
October 14, 2024 07:55 PM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- US stock futures were muted on Monday after the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average notched fresh record closes in the prior session thanks in large part to higher-than-expected

How big of a problem is Europe's declining working age population?
October 12, 2024 11:17 PM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- A declining working age population, once thought to be isolated to the East where Japan and South Korea have fought the economic toll of a diminishing labor pool for decades, has now

Fed likely to cut twice more this year, but job gains cool frontloading urgency
October 12, 2024 06:53 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- The Fed is still likely to cut rates twice this year, but the need for speed to bring rates down to the neutral level sooner rather than later now appears less urgent as the labor mar

Why is China hesitating with the stimulus bazooka? Morgan Stanley weighs in
October 10, 2024 03:13 PM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com-- China’s recent batch of economic support largely disappointed investors holding out for a stimulus “bazooka,” with Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) stating that Beijing had limited scope

Strong September jobs an outlier as labor demand worries persist: Citi
October 08, 2024 06:41 AM AEDT| By InvestingInvesting.com -- The strong September jobs report caught many by surprise, putting the brakes on bets for another jumbo Federal Reserve rate cut, but Citi believes this strength was an outlier as labo

Investors remain bullish on EM, Asia most preferred- HSBC survey
September 26, 2024 02:15 PM AEST| By InvestingInvesting.com-- Investors remained bullish on emerging markets, an HSBC survey showed, with Asian currencies being the most preferred asset class in the sector in the face of falling U.S. interest rat

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