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Emerging Markets Look to Avoid Fed Fallout
Emerging market funds look set to perform better this month than they historically have when the US Fed hikes interest rates. Emerging economies normally brace for a strong dollar, since they have often borrowed heavily in the greenback and suffer...
Brazil to Increase Key Interest Rate
Analysts expect Brazil’s central bank to increase the benchmark interest rate as the country tightens monetary controls, with several more increases in the pipeline. Market watchers expect rake hikes in March and May, with interest rates exp...
Bank of England Ready to Respond to Inflation Pressure
The Bank of England (BoE) is expected to hike interest rates again this week as it continues to pull away from its pandemic-era stimulus that includes a slowing of its bond-buying plan. A majority of influential economists said in a recent poll th...
German Bond Yields Spike on Worries Over ECB Plans
German government bond yields surged on Tuesday, driven by investor expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) will announce more rapid policy tightening after its meeting on Thursday. Germany's influential 10-year government bond yield...
Australia Central Bank in No Rush to Hike Rates
While many developed economies battle with high inflation and the decision whether to hike interest rates or not, Australia’s cash rate remains at a record low of 0.1%. Minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia’s February meeting reve...
IMF Downplays US and China Growth Prospects
The IMF reduced its projections for global growth to 4.4%, down by 0.5%, which is significant in global terms. In particular, the group said the world’s number one and two economies, the US and China, would grow more slowly than anticipated as...
Chile to Raise Interest Rate to Decade High
Chile’s central bank plans to raise its benchmark interest rate to 5.25%, a level not seen in a decade. Analysts expect this to come in the form of a third consecutive interest rate hike of 125 basis points. With all eyes on the US Fed and t...
China Calls on Major Central Banks to Hold Interest Rates
Chinese President Xi Jinping appealed directly to major central bank bosses to resist increasing interest rates to ensure global financial stability. Speaking this week at a World Economic Forum event, China’s leader asked major world econom...
Stocks Slip As Federal Reserve Confirms Stimulus Cutback
US stocks dipped at the end of Wednesday's trading as meeting minutes from the last Federal Reserve sit down confirmed the extent to which the American central bank wants to reduce stimulus. The Dow closed the session down 1.1% while the S&...
Emerging Markets Set to Play Key Role in New Year
Emerging markets suffered a torrid year in 2021. Now, facing a new year with looming higher interest rates, stuttering growth in China, and the lingering Coronavirus pandemic, emerging markets face the future with more questions than answers. Anal...
China Intends to Go It Alone in Chip Manufacture Pledge
China’s ruling Communist Party is encouraging the country’s biggest e-commerce company Alibaba to design and manufacture its own computer processor chips. President Xi has recently said that “Self-reliance is the foundation for t...
Japan Resists Tackling Inflation
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda announced this week that it was too early for the country to start changing its monetary policy to tackle inflation. The world’s third largest economy is set to lag behind other industrialized nations w...
US Fed Signals Three Interest Rate Hikes In 2022
Officials at the US Federal Reserve have announced a plan to increase the benchmark interest rate to 0.9% in 2022, up from the 0.3% indication from September’s meeting. Analysts say this equates to three rate hikes next year. In the sa...
US Fed Expected To Tackle Inflation
Faced with no other choice, the US Federal Reserve is expected to implement stronger measures to tackle inflation. New Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, takes his seat with high inflation affecting the US economy. Consumer prices in the world’...