Financial markets continue to price in the possibility of the Federal Reserve starting to cut rates before the end of next year.
There’s no sign of a let-up in US dollar strength although a large ECB rate hike this week might give the euro bulls some hope.
The last time the world was gripped by an energy price crisis and the Fed was hiking rates aggressively was in the early 1980s. Back then, the dollar surged by 50% in...
Broadly speaking, there are two main forces driving currencies right now.
After a period of relative stability through the summer months, it looks as if volatility is returning again. The dollar and other “safe” currencies will probably be the...
Many analysts projected that Fed Chairman Powell will confirm that interest rates would continue to rise at the 2022 Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, which will take...
We’re hearing the argument more and more now that the recent easing of US financial conditions will make the Fed go harder with its rate hikes.
There has been such a strong narrative to financial markets this year that it seems positioning has become quite extreme.
There’s a bone of contention at the moment between the profile of FED policy priced by the market, and the sort of message that Fed members want to put across.
If financial asset prices such as bonds, stocks, credit and more all rally aggressively, financial conditions could ease back and actually force the Fed to go even...
Rising global inflation is still among the top world news stories these days. US inflation has now hit an all-time new record of 9.1 percent. This is undoubtedly causing...
With inflation rising dramatically, the critics are out and, not surprisingly, central banks are in the firing line.
The FED will likely stop raising rates earlier than expected, according to many analysts. This will raise gold prices.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) won't be in a rush to tighten monetary policy right away to promote economic recovery, even though the FED continues to raise rates.
To combat inflation, the Fed raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage point for the second time in a row.
The dollar has recently risen to the target levels that we’ve held for some months, such as parity against the euro.
The US dollar has been rising sharply and that’s exacerbating already high global inflation as costs rise for dollar-invoiced imports while increasing debt costs...
The gold market is stumbling into this weekend once more after suffering an almost 4% decline as a result of the sell-off in gold. Will gold prices drop next week?
Central bankers continue to claim that inflation can be tamed without causing recessions.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that central bankers and finance ministers wanted weak currencies.
US CPI inflation might be similar to levels in the euro zone or the UK, but there’s little doubt from the recent spate of policy meetings that it will go harder and...
The slump in the US stock market, as well as the expiration of futures contracts in June and the reorganization of international ETFs, will have a negative influence on...
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