FOMC
Awaiting Today’s Fed Forecasts and Powell’s Press Conference
March 17, 2021
Against the backdrop of a significantly improved U.S. economic growth outlook this year and rising U.S. and global inflation lately, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed from 0.89% in mid-December to 1.01% when the FOMC last met to a 13-month high of 1.67% today, the second scheduled FOMC meeting of 2021 figures to be the […] More
Dollar Rises After ECB Expresses Concern about Euro Strength and Ahead of FOMC Announcement Later Today
January 27, 2021
In a speech Klass Knot, President of the Netherlands central bank and therefore an ECB Governing Council member, has protested against the euro’s recent rise and warned that central bankers will respond if appreciation appears to jeopardize the goal of lifting inflation back to its target. Compared to Tuesday closing levels, the dollar rallied 0.4% […] More
U.S. Still Counting Votes as 24-Hour Rise Covid Cases and Deaths Exceed 107K and 1.1K
November 5, 2020
U.S. Election News: Biden’s electoral college count seems likely to reach 270 threshold. Trump is suing to halt counting of absentee ballots, and street protests against such action broke out in several cities overnight. Congress most likely will remain divided with Dems controlling the House and Republicans holding the Senate, but there too ballot counting […] More
Sharp Equity Declines but Mixed Dollar
August 20, 2020
The U.S. equity market correction triggered by downbeat FOMC minutes released yesterday afternoon set the tone for overnight losses in European and Asian markets where bourses tumbled 3.7% in South Korea and 3.3% in Taiwan and by at least 1.0% in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, India, Germany, France, Italy, U.K., and Spain. Indonesia’s market did […] More
Much for Investors to Ponder on FOMC Day
July 29, 2020
In the seven weeks since the Federal Open Market Committee, a resurgent intensification of the Covid-19 pandemic has cast a long shadow over economic prospects in the United States and many other countries. Persistent urban protests in the United States, deepening strains between Beijing and Washington, and President Trump’s increasing desperation to redefine the election […] More
Waiting and Seeing on Multiple Levels
December 11, 2019
The FOMC will reveal its decisions later today from its final scheduled review of U.S. monetary policy in 2019. Financial markets in advance have been marking time ahead of the revelations of any policy action today, when interest rates are likely to be moved next and in what direction, and what factors are currently attracting […] More
Markets Anticipating Another Fed Rate Cut
October 30, 2019
The dollar marked time overnight as investors await confirmation of further easing from the FOMC. Their expectation of a third 25-basis point reduction since July 31st of the federal funds target is thought by many to be accompanied by forward guidance indicating a predisposition to pause afterwards. The announcement at 18:00 GMT will be followed […] More
European Economic Sentiment Stumbled in July
July 30, 2019
European share prices fell Tuesday, depressed by an unexpectedly large slide in economic sentiment in the euro area to a 40-month low of 102.7 in July. That’s down from 105.2 just two months earlier and 111.2 a year ago. Germany’s economic sentiment slumped 2.4 points between June and July. Two big factors are sapping the […] More
Holidays and Waiting for the FOMC Rate Announcement
May 1, 2019
Many centers are closed for May Day/Labour Day observances, including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Norway, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Thailand. Japan’s Golden week continues with today’s accession of Naruhito as emperor, and India’s Maharashtra Day has been marred by vandalism in which fire […] More
More Brexit Confusion, Brighter Data, and an FOMC Meeting
March 19, 2019
The dollar stayed in neutral gear overnight, dipping 0.1% against the euro, sterling, and kiwi, holding flat relative to the yen, yuan and Swiss franc, and nudging up 0.1% vis-a-vis the Aussie dollar. Slightly bigger dollar dips occurred of 0.4% relative to the loonie and 0.2% versus the Mexican peso. Asian stock markets likewise didn’t […] More
