Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady as inflation remains above 2%
The Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged in its first policy meeting since President Trump's ...
Fed leaves rate unchanged, points to stubborn inflation
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday after cutting it three times in a row last year, a ...
Market talk
The US labour market is also in focus next week with an update on hires and fires over December on Tuesday. Payroll data for January also arrives on Friday with 170,000 non-farm jobs expected to have ...
Japan to loosen rules on rice reserves as prices soar
Japan is set to loosen the rules controlling the country’s tightly guarded rice reserve for the first time as domestic prices ...
ECB delivers quarter-point cut and little change in tone
ECB cuts the deposit rate by a quarter point to 2.75 per cent as expected and offers little shift in tone from December as it continues to move policy away from restrictive territory ...
How low will UK interest rates go?
Bond markets in the UK may be more sensitive to fiscal credibility following the turbulence after the 2022 Liz Truss budget. But fiscal sustainability in the UK does not significantly differ from some ...
Fixed income investors seek ways to navigate a Trump presidency
Investors have already seen the yield on the 10-year Treasury rise from as little as 3.6 per cent in mid-September to about 4 ...
The Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Ticked Up Slightly in December
The central bank needs to see further progress on inflation or weakness in the labor market to resume interest rate cuts.
Economy remains steady amid persistent inflation | Opinion
The FOMC plans to meet eight times in 2025 to evaluate the state of the economy and adjust policies as needed. At its final ...
‘Anti-woke’ vs industrial push: Australian voters face stark choice
Rinehart has called on Australia to adopt the US president’s agenda of tax and spending cuts, and has pushed for Canberra to ...