China’s Reopening Complicates Global Fight Against Inflation: WSJ
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China’s central bank keeps benchmark lending rates unchanged
China’s central bank on Friday kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged as the Chinese economy recovered from the country’s COVID reopening quicker than expected. The People’s Bank of China kept the one-year loan prime rate at 3.65% and five-year LPR at 4.3%, both unchanged from last month. The hold on the benchmark loan rates for […]
Fed Governor Lael Brainard sees high rates ahead even with progress on inflation
Lael Brainard, vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, during a University of Chicago Booth School of Business event in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Jim Vondruska | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said Thursday that interest rates need to remain high, even though there are signs inflation is starting […]
Fed’s Bullard doesn’t want to ‘stall’ on getting interest rates over 5%
The Federal Reserve should not “stall” on raising its benchmark rates until they are above 5%, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, on Wednesday. “I like the front-loading story,” Bullard said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that was streamed live . The Fed should move as rapidly as it can to […]
Premarket stocks: The world has a major debt problem. Is a reset coming?
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN — The world is in debt. A record amount of debt. Three hundred trillion dollars, […]
Investors are ‘desperate’ for a recession that forces the Fed to pivot but what happens to markets if the economy remains healthy this year ?
As 2023 gets underway markets are clinging to expectations that the U.S. economy will slide into a recession that effectively forces the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates, lower bond yields and borrowing costs, and perhaps help stock market valuations. U.S. economic data released over the past few months show that inflation has moderated, […]
The Fed has won its ‘war’ against inflation, says JPMorgan analyst. And now it needs to stop hiking interest rates.
“‘This is a war that [the Federal Reserve has] won, and now they are in danger of tipping the economy into recession and making the fiscal problem worse, so I wish they would be done.’” — David Kelly, JPMorgan Chase & Co. A top global markets strategist for JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset-management business said […]
Gold scales 9-month high above key $1,900 level; highest since late April
By Kavya Guduru(Reuters) – Gold prices firmed above the key $1,900 level on Friday, hitting their highest since late April after a surprise decline in U.S. consumer prices boosted bets for slower Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.Spot gold was up 0.4% at $1,905.19 per ounce, as of 1008 GMT. The […]
Consumer prices fell 0.1% in December, in line with expectations from economists
Inflation closed out 2022 in a modest retreat, with consumer prices in December posting their biggest monthly decline since early in the pandemic, the Labor Department reported Thursday.The consumer price index, which measures the cost of a broad basket of goods and services, fell 0.1% for the month, in line with the Dow Jones estimate. […]