Investors should not have unrealistic expectations regarding the pace at which U.S. inflation subsides in 2023, analysts argue, ahead of Thursday’s consumer price index report for December which may test Read more
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Fed warns of ‘low’ market liquidity in $24 trillion Treasury market, in latest financial stability report
The Federal Reserve on Friday confirmed what many investors were saying for some time: the $24 trillion Treasury market has been experiencing low levels of market liquidity in recent months. Read more
Bank of Canada remains ‘far’ from reaching 2% inflation target
OTTAWA — Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem told Canadian lawmakers Tuesday that the central bank remains “far from the goal” of reaching 2% inflation while reiterating the central bank’s Read more
20 dividend stocks that may be safest if the Federal Reserve causes a recession
Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t Read more
20 dividend stocks that may be safest if the Federal Reserve causes a recession
Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t Read more
Opinion: Biden is undermining Powell’s efforts to curb inflation
Appropriating language from Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has pledged to “keep at it” and risk a recession to conquer inflation. In varying measure, central bankers in other Western industrialized countries, save Japan, are Read more
‘Mounting fear is that something else will break along the way’: Stock-market investors look ahead to PCE inflation data amid Fed overtightening worries
Some investors are on edge that the Federal Reserve may be overtightening monetary policy in its bid to tame hot inflation, as markets look ahead to a reading this coming Read more
Pension trade body urges Bank of England to extend bond-market support until end of October
A U.K. trade body for the pensions industry has urged the Bank of England to extend its emergency action to purchase bonds to prop up the market. The Pensions and Read more
As bond yields spike, Bank of England widens U.K. market intervention in second effort this week to calm volatile markets
The Bank of England said Tuesday that it will expand its daily U.K. bond purchase operations to include index-linked gilts, the second move this week aimed at trying to calm Read more
As bond yields spike, Bank of England widens U.K. market intervention in second effort this week to calm volatile markets
The Bank of England said Tuesday that it will expand its daily U.K. bond purchase operations to include index-linked gilts, the second move this week aimed at trying to calm Read more