Traders, investors and strategists are adding one more factor to the list of reasons why financial markets may be more than volatile through the next three to four months: . Wednesday’s price action reflected the continued anxiety gripping stock market, with all three major indexes sporting sharp losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -3.48% … Read more
Monday’s market slump had an eerie feel to it, almost as if investors had been expecting it. After the obvious low trigger, things appear to be stabilizing again Tuesday morning. At least for now, it’s a drop, but not a panic. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sees them as similar. “The US financial system has continued … Read more
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EU officials have proposed a ban on insured ships that carry Russian oil, a move aimed at blocking Russia’s access to global oil markets and the revenues that have fueled its military invasion of Ukraine. “In effect, it would be a very strong hindrance to export Russian crude,” said Lars Barstad, chief executive of Frontline … Read more
WASHINGTON — Top US banking regulators are poised to overhaul how banks leverage billions of dollars annually in low-income communities, after scrapping a Trump-era revamp that had divided regulators and industry officials. The latest proposal for the Modernize Rules of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act is set to be aimed at ensuring that lower-income individuals … Read more
The Federal Reserve has approved a rare half-percentage-point interest rate increase and plans to shrink its $ 9 trillion asset portfolio to a double-barreled effort in the next month. The moves, after a two-day policy meeting Wednesday, will raise the central bank’s benchmark federal-funds rate to a target range of between 0.75% and 1%. Together, … Read more
There are higher inflation and interest rates than the stock market’s downdraft. This is also a sign that the economy has arrived at a new postpandemic normal — and it is not as lucrative as investors have hoped. The Pandemic Catalyzed a once-in-a-generation change in consumer, worker and company behavior: From a shift to remote … Read more
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his central bank colleagues are likely to raise interest rates by a half-point and start demanding the size of their balance sheet when they announce their policy decision Wednesday. Samuel Corum / Getty Images Text size A half-point interest-rate hike and a start-up so-called quantitative tightening are all but … Read more
This Wednesday, officials will announce how they will shrink those holdings. Expect the process to be faster and more disruptive to financial markets than last time. The Fed first undertook large-scale bond buying, dubbed “quantitative easing,” during and after the 2007-09 financial crisis. At a time when the Fed’s short-term interest rate was near zero, … Read more
Text size Chinese 100 yuan bank notes. Paul Yeung / Bloomberg While a certain social-media site, the global currency markets are arguably the wilder and perhaps more important, Asian currencies, notably China’s yuan and Japan’s yen, took their sharpest dives in years, while the other side of the globe, the euro slide to a five-year … Read more
