The Federal Reserve will be watching jobs and unemployment numbers, as well as a manufacturing index and other private sector reports.
The House of Representatives passed legislation over the weekend that would broaden sanctions against Iran's oil exports
The Fed's decision to hike interest rates and then hold them at a 23-year high has helped to significantly lower elevated inflation, although it remains stuck firmly above the US central bank's long-term target of two percent.Since the start of this year, the Fed's favored inflation measure has actually accelerated, hitting an annual rate of 2.7 percent in March, while economic growth has slowed, and the labor market has remained robust.The current environment, analysts say, is likely to lead...
Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed The final day of April was really ugly: ECI way hotter than expected (spooked markets), Case-Shiller home prices soared far more than expected (spooked markets more), Chicago PMI puked (while prices paid increased), Consumer Confidence crashed, and Dallas Fed Services slumped all of which left stocks, bonds, gold, crude oil, and bitcoin all languishing into month-end while the dollar rallied. Stocks...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Reserve is highly likely to keep interest rates unchanged later this week, as policymakers contend with a recent uptick in inflation that has sharply cut the chance of a summer start to interest rate cuts. The Fed's decision to hike interest rates and then hold them at a 23-year high has helped to significantly lower elevated inflation, although it remains stuck firmly above the U.S. central bank's long-term target of two percent.
The US central bank's favored measure of inflation accelerated last month, according to government data published Friday, pushing back the chances of an interest rate cut this summer.The hotter print is likely to cement the view that inflation, while down sharply since 2022, remains a challenge, and could keep the Federal Reserve on pause as it seeks to battle rising prices.It also complicates US president Joe Biden's reelection message as he seeks to convince still-skeptical consumers that the...
Most of this week has been dominated by discussions about when the Bank of England will start cutting interest rates.
Huw Pill warns inflation could rebound as UK business survey signals economy strengthened over last monthThe prospects of a summer cut in UK interest rates have receded after the Bank of England’s chief economist said inflation must be squeezed out of the economy and cautioned against cutting too soon.After a key survey signalled strong sales across the private sector over the past month and the London stock market rose to a record high, Huw Pill said concerns remained that inflation, which is...
Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week The "calm before the storm" of earnings and big macro this week (and no WW3 this weekend) was all the algos needed to ramp stocks during the US cash session after being reminded that the buyback-blackout period is almost over And S&P HOD as algos start frontrunning the buybacks https://t.co/DfjpdZO1pS — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 22, 2024 Stocks had fallen from up around 0.6% at the cash open to...
Analysts expect S&P 500 profits to jump 8% in 2024 and 14% in 2025 after subdued growth last year.
Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth It was an ugly macro week Source: Bloomberg and worse still, 'growth' surprises disappointed significantly while 'inflation' surprises surprised to the upside significantly Source: Bloomberg Soaring inflation expectations sent rate-cut expectations to new cycle lows Source: Bloomberg pushing yields higher across the board (led by the long-end) Source: Bloomberg But, stocks...
The annual rate for Series I bonds could fall below 5% in May based on inflation and other factors, financial experts say. Here's what to know.