Economy

Analyst lists key questions for China in 2025
December 05, 2024 05:43 AM AEDT | By InvestingInvesting.com -- Forecasting China’s economic trajectory is never straightforward, but ING analysts laid out ten pivotal questions to watch in 2025.

Tariffs likely to delay return to 2% inflation in 2025, Goldman Sach...
December 04, 2024 12:53 PM AEDT | By InvestingInvesting.com-- Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) expects increased U.S. trade tariffs under a Trump presidency, especially against China, to delay inflation fr...

Fed's Williams sees more rate cuts over time as policy remains restr...
December 03, 2024 09:57 AM AEDT | By InvestingInvesting.com -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams on Monday signaled support for more rate interest rate cuts over time as mon...

Analyst says BJP Maharashtra win positive for market, notes populist...
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 stabilit...

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...

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 cu...

Lighthizer, allies preparing to argue for steep new Trump tariffs -...
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 p...

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 dema...

Republican clean sweep will lead to fewer rate cuts, but economic gr...
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" af...

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 fis...
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 cutt...

BOJ preview: interest rates to remain unchanged amid political uncer...
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 u...

Fed balance sheet runoff to continue through Q2 2025 unless labor ma...
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...

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 manag...

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...

Fed's Kashkari sees modest cuts ahead, but says change in labor mark...
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 evidenc...

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, wit...

Futures muted, earnings this week, Boeing job cuts - what's moving m...
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 ses...

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...

Fed likely to cut twice more this year, but job gains cool frontload...
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 t...