Stocks in China tumbled and the currency weakened on Monday after the country’s central bank announced a smaller-than-expected cut in a key interest rate.Many investors and economists had been expecting […]
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Back to news homeInflation Rose to 3.2%, but Overall Price Trends Are Encouraging
Fresh inflation data offered the latest evidence that price increases were meaningfully cooling, good news for consumers and policymakers alike more than a year into the Federal Reserve’s campaign to […]
U.K. Inflation Remains Stuck at 8.7 Percent
Last month, the central bank warned that many mortgage holders had not experienced the cost of higher interest rates yet. About 1.3 million households are expected to reach the end […]
Fed Pauses Interest Rate Increases but Suggests More Are Ahead
Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, skipping an increase after raising rates 10 times in a row since March 2022. Still, policymakers predicted that they might need […]
UK Braces for Higher Interest Rates as Risk of Inflation Grows
Britain on Tuesday received another sign that inflation could painfully linger. The country braced, once again, for higher interest rates as bond yields climbed above the levels when Liz Truss […]
What the Markets Are Telling Us About the Debt Ceiling
Republicans should insist on trillions of dollars in expenditure reductions now, Mr. Trump said last week during a live town hall hosted by CNN. If the White House doesn’t agree, […]
Former SVB CEO Tells Senate He Is ‘Truly Sorry’ for Collapse but Deflects Blame
In his first public remarks since Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, triggering widespread industry turmoil, the lender’s former chief executive pointed the finger at pretty much everybody but himself, casting blame […]
The Debt Ceiling Impasse Raises the Risks for ‘Risk-Free’ U.S. Bonds
It’s come to this.Because of the debt ceiling crisis, a corner of the financial markets sees the U.S. government as a riskier borrower over the next month or so than […]
Bond Trading May Be Sending a Recession Warning
Wild swings in the Treasury market are unlike anything many investors today had seen. They’re also potentially warning of a recession. Read More
What Are Markets Saying About the World?
It was a week of market turmoil that began with the collapse of a small bank in the United States, spiraled into a panic about the global financial system and […]