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Being too "abrupt and aggressive" with interest rate increases could be counter-productive to the Federal Reserve's goals, San ...
Being too "abrupt and aggressive" with interest rate increases could be counter-productive to the Federal Reserve's goals, San ...
    Assets To Own For A Volatile Market | Felix Zulauf
Feb 14, 2022 - 06:40:58 PST
As volatility increasingly roils markets this year, which assets should perform best/worst? Highly-respected investor Felix Zulauf, owner & President of Zulauf Consulting, predicts markets will correct by 20% or so over the coming months as the Federal Reserve embarks on hiking interest rates.
Chinese gold consumption boomed during the January holiday season. This continued the 2021 trend where Chinese gold demand climbed back above prepandemic levels.
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard made his case for a rapid move higher in interest rates, saying Monday that the central bank needs to react to accelerating inflation.
Gold traded near the highest since November, amid renewed investor demand as geopolitical tensions persist over Ukraine.
Ukraine has requested a meeting with Russia within 48 hours, as U.S. intelligence officials warn that a Russian attack could happen this week.
Last week, for the first time since the current tightening frenzy began, Goldman warned that the Fed's aggressive tightening may could to a hard landing. Not surprisingly, just a few days later, the bank slashed its year-end S&P target and now warns that in a recession the S&P could tumble to 3,600.
After CPI came in hotter than expected yet again in January, Peter Schiff appeared on Fox Business along with Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager of Solutions Funds Group Larry Shover. Peter said that the inflation tsunami is just getting started and the Fed is powerless to fight it.
BofA's bearish Chief Investment Strategist, Michael Hartnett, who has been dead on with his fire and brimstone forecasts for the past 6 months, must be getting tired taking victory laps (unlike his Goldman and JPM colleagues who like broken records only know how to repeat BTFD over and over at least until this week when their tune is set to change).
Japanese bonds got a double boost Monday as traders returned from a long weekend to find strong demand for haven assets, just as the central bank showed its determination to enforce yield-curve control.
The People’s Bank of China is leaving economists divided over whether it needs to cut interest rates for a second month to boost a faltering economy.
Jay Powell assured financial markets and the American public just over two weeks ago that the Federal Reserve would be “humble and nimble” as it focused on fighting inflation.
Oil’s surge toward $100 a barrel for the first time since 2014 is threatening to deal a double-blow to the world economy by further denting growth prospects and driving up inflation.
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The inventories of some of the world’s most important commodities are at historically low levels, as the growing demand and shortage of supply threaten to provoke inflationary pressures around the world.
    World’s Top Economies Confront Inflation
Feb 14, 2022 - 05:15:22 PST
Group of 20 finance chiefs meeting in Indonesia will confront a much-altered global economy menaced by widespread inflation, the threat of war, and a legacy of disease.
Senator Joe Manchin said the Federal Reserve needs to “stop pussyfooting around” and “tackle inflation head-on,” renewing his call for the central bank to act against the fastest pace of price increases since the early 1980s.
Beyond higher prices for materials, shipping or wages, inflation is hitting U.S. companies in less-obvious ways, seeping into legal costs for Marlboro maker Altria and auto-repair bills for insurer Allstate.
Investors in European bonds are heading into this rate-hike cycle more vulnerable than they’ve ever been before, suggesting that the painful selloff of recent weeks could be only the beginning.