“I don’t want divulge in to how they are diverting, but I think the RBI has taken very considered decision and they have also done by purchasing gold,” FM Sitharaman added.
India gains ground as Fed maintains rates and investors seek stability beyond the West
Greed and Fear said its base case is that a 'major decline' in the US dollar has begun, over and above the recent pullback, which the note said has been a 'correction of an overvaluation'.
Trend reversals in gold prices are not uncommon but only when the myriad uncertainties are behind, and that is anybody’s guess
Marks noted that even if tariffs succeed in bringing manufacturing back to the US, the country currently lacks the infrastructure
The proportion of consumers anticipating a recession over the next 12 months too has dropped to its lowest since 2022, as also the percentage of consumers believing the economy was already in recession.
If the August jobs report “looks reasonably good, we would probably cut our recession probability back to 15%, where it stood for almost a year,” Goldman Sachs economists led by Jan Hatzius said in a note on Saturday.
Mehra feels there are no significant risks to India from the global risks like the Yen carry trade, a possible US recession. Yet, the abundance of domestic liquidity can be no cover for faltering fundamentals
All three major indexes registered their biggest three-day percentage declines since June 2022, and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed at their lowest levels since early May.
The global market sell-off was especially severe in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, with each of these equity markets witnessing record single-day declines.
Share markets also tumbled across Asia as U.S. recession fears sent investors rushing from risk assets while wagering that rapid rate cuts will be needed to drive economic growth
The Yen-funded carry trades were popular in emerging markets amid low volatility as investors bet Japanese rates would remain low for longer. But BoJ has raised rates for a second time at its latest meeting, signalling it may not be done yet.
The sell-side consultancy headed by noted economist and investment strategist Ed Yardeni, believes that the US Fed will take a more dovish stand and give stocks and bonds a boost
This metic has been long been considered an unerring signal of an impending recession, but now there are differing views
While the case for soft landing gets stronger, Fed is in no hurry to cut rates
The big worry for central banks is a wage-price spiral, where both wages and prices move up in lockstep, forcing rates to move ever higher.
The brokerage’s analysts said that it was just cyclical, that structural growth drivers are still in place
The consultancy pointed to sticky inflation and improved growth expectations
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Achieving price stability, growth stability and financial stability with one policy tool, that is the fed funds rates to me looks like mission impossible. So, either hard landing and a financial crash or the re-anchoring of inflation expectations.
The greenback hit session lows against the yen and euro after data showed higher weekly jobless claims, a precipitous drop in mid-Atlantic business activity, and lower existing home sales.
Global headline inflation is set to fall from 8.7 percent in 2022 to 7.0 percent in 2023 on the back of lower commodity prices, but underlying (core) inflation is likely to decline more slowly. Inflation’s return to target is unlikely before 2025 in most cases.
Grantham’s warning of a deep recession is similar to the views of economist Nouriel Roubini, who recently cautioned investors of a painful stagflation-driven recession for the global economy due to the cold war between the US and China
The US added 236,000 jobs in March just beating estimates. Wall street will acknowledge the same report once the markets open.
Dan Fineman said investors are being too optimistic about market conditions as he expects a recession to hit the United States in 2023.