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With an ‘Aggressive’ Fed Rate Hike Expected Next Week, Stocks and Crypto Markets Lose Billions
1.5.2022
Investors will be focused on the U.S. central bank this Wednesday as Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to raise the benchmark interest rate aggressively. The top U.S. stock indexes saw significant losses at the end of the week, and the Nasdaq composite saw its worst four-month starting...
While Global Markets Get Spooked by Covid and a Hawkish Fed, Stocks and Crypto Rebound After Musk Buys Twitter
25.4.2022
Wall Street suffered Monday morning as the major U.S. stock indexes dropped further, building on losses gathered last week. Reports indicate that investors are concerned about the upcoming Federal Reserve rate hikes and China’s recent Covid-19 outbreak. As equities floundered on Monday,...
Fed’s Bostic Cautious About Rate Hikes as President Biden Blames Higher Prices on Covid-19 and Putin
20.4.2022
As inflation continues to wreak havoc on the lives of ordinary American citizens, all eyes are focused on the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plans to fix the situation. Meanwhile, as the St. Louis Fed president James Bullard wants to aggressively hike the benchmark bank interest rate, Atlanta...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Says ‘the Fed Has No Intention of Fighting Inflation’
15.4.2022
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, says that the Federal Reserve “has no intention of fighting inflation.” He added that the Fed’s “Serial half-point hikes are for getting elevation before stocks and the consumer...
AUD Expected to Stay Bullish with Expectations of RBA Hikes
4.4.2022
The Australian dollar has held on to a steady momentum in the last few weeks. It was triggered by the increasing commodity prices following the International crisis in Eastern Europe. Although the Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to keep the rates at 0.1% for the first half of the year...
RBA’s Decision on Hikes Will Influence the Australian Dollar
1.4.2022
The Australian economy is stronger than before, but the Australian Dollar is testing tides against the national resistance level. Fundamentals have held their ground as the Australian Dollar is backed by two factors. A healthy national balance sheet and the elevated commodity prices have, as...
Hopes for Russia-Ukraine War De-Escalation Hikes Euro
30.3.2022
Amidst intensifying fears about the Russia-Ukraine war, the news of de-escalation is a clear indication of diplomacy. With this news of peace breakthrough and de-escalation, the price of the Euro hiked as other currencies fought hard to find a floor. The U.S. Dollar Index showed that the currency...
First Mover Americas: Risk Assets Resilient to Faster Rate Hikes, 1994 Cycle Suggests
25.3.2022
Risk Assets Resilient to Faster Rate Hikes, 1994 Cycle Suggests
Bitcoin clings to $43K as Fed signals up to 7 rate hikes in 2022
24.3.2022
Fresh comments from officials shows the need to tame inflation, while bonds see their biggest comedown from all-time highs since 2008
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Hints at Aggressive Rate Hikes After Saying ‘Inflation Is Much Too High’
21.3.2022
The 16th chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell said that America’s “inflation is much too high” on Monday, and he further explained that the U.S. central bank is willing to raise rates more aggressively. Off the heels of the first benchmark interest rate increase since...
Federal Reserve Bank President Pushes for Faster Rate Hikes — Says the Fed Risks Losing Credibility on Inflation Target
21.3.2022
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, James Bullard, has called for more aggressive measures to combat inflation and reduce the size of the Fed’s balance sheet. “The burden of excessive inflation is particularly heavy for people with modest incomes and wealth and...
Bitcoin Pops Above $40K After Fed Hikes Interest Rates, What’s Next For BTC Price?
18.3.2022
Early morning on March 17, Bitcoin price was on a roller coaster, breaking down below $39,500 after the Fed raised interest rates by 25 bps, but it soon sustained above $40,000 mark. Despite BTC is still moving in an increasingly tight range between $37,000 and $41,000 since March, both fundamental...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH up to 2-Week High Following Fed Rate Hike
17.3.2022
Ethereum climbed to a two-week high on Thursday, as markets continued to react to yesterday’s Fed decision. As expected, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 0.25%, whilst providing forward guidance for future hikes. BTC was once again trading above $40,000. Bitcoin BTC...
Fed Hikes Benchmark Bank Rate for the First Time Since 2018, FOMC Expects 6 More Increases
16.3.2022
On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and Fed chair Jerome Powell held a press conference concerning the American economy, the central bank’s plans to address inflation, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Powell announced that the FOMC decided to increase the benchmark bank...
Bitcoin Breakout Elusive as Traders Price in 7 Fed Rate Hikes For 2022
15.3.2022
The Fed is likely to raise rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, the first hike since 2018
Poll Suggests ECB May Wait Until Q4 to Raise Rates, Several Banks Expect a Series of Fed Rate Hikes This Year
7.3.2022
A recently published Reuters poll suggests the European Central Bank (ECB) may wait until the last quarter of the year (Q4) to raise its first interest rate in over ten years. The poll’s author details that after the conflict in Ukraine, “fewer economists” predict the ECB will...
Rate hikes, CPI and war in Europe — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
7.3.2022
A grim cocktail of macro triggers converges on Bitcoin, with risk assets looking at a "rough" few days coming up, analysts warn
While the Fed Monitors the ‘Ukraine Situation Closely,’ Powell Still Expects a Series of Quarter-Point Rate Hikes
3.3.2022
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell still expects to see interest rate hikes starting in March, but the Fed chief further stressed that the central bank will “need to be nimble.” In remarks prepared for members of U.S. Congress, Powell discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
First Mover Americas: Fed Hikes Could Drive Bitcoin Adoption in Emerging Markets
3.3.2022
Bitcoin was trading flat to negative even as the European stocks and the S&P 500 futures got a slight tailwind
Fed Will ‘Proceed Carefully’ with Rate Hikes Despite Ukraine War - Chair Powell
2.3.2022
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) will “proceed carefully” with its plan to hike interest rates this year despite the war in Ukraine, with the first hike of 0.25 percentage points still expected at the Fed’s next meeting in March, Fed chair Jerome Powell said during a hearing in Congress today.
“We...