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Strong US August payrolls lift rate-hike odds to 58%; Dow falls
US employers added 162,000 jobs in August, far above the 53,000 forecast. Traders now see a 58% chance of a September Fe...
Schroders Adds Long-Dated US Treasuries, Sees Yield Peak Near 5%
The British asset manager says 10-year US yields of 4.8%–5% are a buying opportunity, while Equiti's research chief outl...
DAX Pulls Back From Record as Oil Spike and Hawkish Fed Signal Shake Europe
European markets edged lower on Monday after Friday's record DAX close, with oil-price gains from US-Iran escalation and...
The Income Playbook Built for a 5% Treasury Era
With the 10-year Treasury near 4.74% and the 30-year above 5.27%, an income analysis argues for pairing midstream MLPs w...
Fed's Warsh Opens Door to Rate Hike as Oil Slides and AI Stocks Rally
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh left the door open to tightening after a hot core PCE reading, while Brent slipped on Hormuz hopes...
Fed's Warsh Signals Higher Rates Possible as Markets Reprice Hike Odds
Warsh's Jackson Hole debut pushes traders to see a near-60% chance of a September hike; stocks drift while two-year yiel...
Gold Hits Two-Month High as Treasury Liquidity Support Weakens Dollar
Treasury's expanded buybacks and a weaker dollar lifted gold above $4,500 for the first time since early June, while sil...
Gold Steadies Near $4,337 as Traders Wait for Fed July Minutes
Gold stabilises after Tuesday's bond-yield slide, with FOMC minutes due at 18:00 GMT and CME pricing showing a 64% chanc...
Wall Street Ends Lower as Weak Retail Sales and Chip Selloff Weigh
US stocks fell Friday as chip names slid, July retail sales unexpectedly dropped 0.6%, and Strait of Hormuz shipping dis...
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits 25-Year High as Deficit Financing Costs Mount
A 30-year auction priced at 5.216% and a 10-year sale at 4.683% show investors demanding more for US debt as July's defi...
Russian Stocks Flat as Oil Rally Offsets Ukraine War Gloom; HeadHunter Jumps on Dividend
MOEX and RTS barely moved on Aug. 14 as higher Brent and HeadHunter's dividend news competed with geopolitical drift; an...
US Inflation Stays at 3.4% as 25-Year-High Bond Yields and Soft Jobs Data Test the Fed
US inflation is stuck at 3.4%, long-term Treasury yields have hit 25-year highs above 5%, and weak job creation is compl...
AI's Infrastructure Boom Is Now an Inflation Risk for Stocks and Bonds
Computer, software and energy costs tied to AI are pushing inflation higher now, complicating Fed policy and lifting Tre...
S&P 500 hits record, Nasdaq gains as soft producer prices cool Fed hike bets
Cooler producer inflation followed the CPI slowdown, lifting US stocks to a record even as AI earnings split and oil pri...
Cooler July Inflation Gives Fed Room to Hold Rates in September
Lower-than-expected CPI and PPI readings have shifted market bets from a September hike to no change, but the August 26 ...
US Borrows at Highest 10-Year Yield Since 2007 as Inflation Cools
July's 0.1% monthly CPI gain trimmed September Fed hike odds, but the Treasury sold 10-year notes at 4.683%—the highest ...
Gold Holds Fourth Weekly Gain as US Consumer Data Weakens
Comex gold nears a fourth straight weekly rise at $4,446.76 as weak US retail sales and a drop in consumer sentiment sup...
Kazakhstan's KASE Index Hits Record Above 8,100 as Oil Climbs and US Inflation Cools
Oil, slower US inflation and a Kaspi.kz dividend catalyst pushed Kazakhstan's benchmark to a fresh high. The week's winn...
US Futures Steady as Cooling Producer Prices Bolster Fed-Hold Bets
Cooling producer prices and a modest rise in jobless claims leave US futures sideways, while Applied Materials slips aft...
S&P 500 Closes at Record High as Cooling Inflation Fuels Fed Pause Bets
US stocks rose Thursday, with the S&P 500 hitting a record close as softer producer price data reinforced bets that the ...
Gold Closes 1% Lower as Profit-Taking Follows Two-Month High
December gold fell $47.10 to $4,420.40 an ounce as traders took profits after a two-month high; silver dropped 1% to $64...
US Inflation Eases to 3.4% as Fuel Prices Cloud the Fed's Next Move
July CPI cooled to 3.4% and core inflation slipped to 2.5%, but rising gasoline prices and sticky services costs leave t...
Dollar Holds at 99.88 as Markets Await US CPI, Yen Slips to 159.41 Despite Intervention
Forex markets are frozen around a steady dollar index as traders wait for Wednesday's US CPI. The yen is the weak except...
Wall Street futures edge higher as oil drops before July PPI and Fed clues
U.S. stock futures nudged up Thursday while Brent crude fell 1.9%. Investors await July producer prices and Fed speakers...
Dollar Steadies Below 100 as Traders Await US Inflation Test
Foreign exchange markets are in a deceptive calm before Wednesday’s US CPI release, with the yen at a monthly low despit...
Gold Retreats 1% from Two-Month High as Soft U.S. CPI Cools Fed Hike Bets
Gold reversed from its highest level since June after lower-than-expected U.S. inflation reduced expectations for near-t...
Fed September Hike Bets Cool as BOJ Wagers Heat Up
US rate expectations eased after in-line CPI and soft payrolls, while Japan's 7.2% wholesale inflation revived BOJ hike ...
Gold's $300 Weekly Rally: Weak US Jobs Data, Not Geopolitics, Drove the Turn
Gold climbed almost $300 to above $4,340/oz in a week as a shock US payrolls loss cut September Fed rate-hike odds from ...
Oil and Gold Rise as Red Sea Attacks and US CPI Loom
Brent extended its rally to a sixth day and gold climbed, while markets braced for a US inflation report that may decide...
US Inflation Eases to 3.4% in July as Oil Prices Retreat
Lower oil prices helped US consumer inflation ease to 3.4% in July, matching forecasts, but AI-driven computing demand i...