Believing that the U.S. Federal Reserve has completed its campaign of interest rate hikes, investors are buying corporate bonds at the fastest clip since July 2020, the Financial Times reported.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
What a difference a month makes. The U.S. equity market continues its November spike.
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FED HOLDS RATES STEADY
On 1 November, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it will continue to hold its key interest rates steady at 5.25 percent on deposits and 5.5 percent on loans. The Fed has not changed the rates since July.
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MORE CENTRAL BANK CURRENCY AND DEBT MANIPULATION. AND THE GREATEST TRANSFER OF WEALTH IN HISTORY.
Last week the Federal Reserve began a new phase of currency and debt manipulation on an unprecedented scale. And as a result, the U.S. stock market had its best week in terms of gains for the year.
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MORTGAGE RATES UP. WHAT’S NEXT?
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s high interest rates, abetted by inflation, are keeping U.S. mortgage interest rates above 7 percent.
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ECB BOOSTS INTEREST RATE TO 23-YEAR HIGH
As the U.S. Federal Reserve did a day earlier, the European Central Bank (ECB) added a quarter point to its key interest rate on 27 July, bringing it to 3.75 percent. It began raising the rate in July 2022, when it was -0.50 percent.
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FED RAISES INTEREST RATE TO 22-YEAR HIGH
On 26 July, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee voted unanimously to add another quarter point to its interest rates, raising them to 5.25 percent on deposits and 5.5 percent on loans, their highest since 2001.
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CONSENSUS BUILDS AROUND “SOFT LANDING,” END TO FED’S RATE HIKES
Analysts and investors are coalescing around the view that the U.S. Federal Reserve has tamed inflation without knocking the U.S. economy into a recession—creating a “soft landing”—and will end its series of interest rate increases, perhaps as soon as next month.
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THE BET: TWO MORE FED RATE HIKES THIS YEAR
All 11 voting members of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee agreed to defer an interest rate increase in June’s meeting, the session's newly-released minutes show.
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CHIEFS OF FEDERAL RESERVE, BANK OF ENGLAND REMAIN INTEREST RATE HAWKS
Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey both signaled that they expect, and support, moves by their banks to continue raising interest rates.