European Central Economists at Nordea Bank shared their views on the expectations of the European Central Bank’s monetary policy decisions, after the minutes of the bank’s meeting results were released during last July, as experts saw that the results of the meeting did not provide much guidance on what the European Central Bank would do … Read more
NEW YORK IG sees the Nasdaq 100, which has been doing much better since the beginning of the year and has recently been weakening, up 0.3 percent at 15,468 points. The interest rate decision by the US Federal Reserve is on the agenda for Wednesday. It is widely expected to raise interest rates again. However, … Read more
Zou Lan, head of the monetary policy department of the Chinese central bank PBOC Zou is also considering lowering the reserve ratio for commercial banks to allow them to lend more. (Foto: imago images/VCG) Beijing, Hong Kong China’s central bank wants to dig deep into its tool kit to fight an economic downturn in the world’s … Read more
Kristalina Georgieva and Shehbaz Sharif Last week the Pakistani Prime Minister met with the Managing Director of the IMF – now the agreement has followed. (Photo: via REUTERS) Lahore Pakistan averted default at the last minute. The government agreed on Friday with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a new loan of three billion dollars. … Read more
NEW YORK Market participants are apparently optimistic that the US Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates further on Wednesday, commented analyst Edward Moya from broker Oanda. After ten increases in a row, bank economists are now also expecting a monetary policy pause due to the cooling economy and the trend towards falling inflation. Another … Read more
13 hours Edit But how? (5) any trouble? After all, coal (fine) for power plants and heat and power plants is said to be cheap in abundance (our rulers took care of it, after all;) by a strange coincidence, but it’s probably a coincidence that electricity has become more expensive for everyone, now restrictions for … Read more
The banking crisis tightened credit conditions “While financial stabilization tools have helped calm conditions in the banking sector, developments in the industry on the other hand are contributing to a tightening of credit conditions and are likely to affect economic growth, employment and inflation,” Powell explained. “As a result, we may not need to raise … Read more
NEW YORK Better than expected economic data weighed on fixed income. The number of initial applications for unemployment benefits fell more sharply than expected in the past week. In addition, the leading indicator for the Philadelphia region brightened more in May than forecast. The data tends to point to further interest rate hikes by the … Read more
Oil prices rose as investors flocked to risky assets amid optimism about the debt ceiling negotiations in the United States, and they largely ignored a bearish report regarding the country’s oil inventories. US crude prices stabilized above $72 a barrel on Wednesday due to an improvement in risk appetite in general in the markets, driven … Read more
PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones)–Jerome Powell, the chairman of the American Federal Reserve (Fed), recognized it at the beginning of May: after the last rate hikes announced at the beginning of the month, the major central banks are approaching the goal. Monetary institutions are beginning to give an idea of terminal interest rates. They would be around … Read more