Investors fled the chip sector in last week’s latter days, driving the NASDAQ down by more than 1,100 points, or about 4.18 percent, on Friday to book its biggest one-day loss since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff turmoil in April 2025.
Tag: interest rates
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INVESTORS DUMP BONDS AS OIL PRICES CLIMB
Investors around the world are fleeing bonds, fearing that central banks will be forced to raise their interest rates to tamp down rising inflation that soaring oil prices have already set in motion, Bloomberg reported.
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HEDGE FUNDS SINKING UNDER ECONOMIC TURBULENCE
In March, the world’s hedge funds sold the greatest volume of assets in more than four years, Reuters reported, as global economic volatility roiled market values.
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TOP TREND 2024: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
After years of trying to rehabilitate late-paying commercial real estate loans, lenders are now calling in the loans at an increasing rate.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Chicago-based asset manager Nuveen will buy Schroder’s, the iconic, 200-year-old London financial services firm, for $13.5 billion.
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FED NOMINEE SEES AI AS PRODUCTIVITY BOON FOR U.S. ECONOMY
Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump’s choice as the next chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, shares Trump’s conviction that the central bank’s interest rates must be much lower – and he thinks artificial intelligence (AI) is the way to make that work.
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EMERGING MARKETS ARE THE YEAR’S HOT INVESTMENTS
Bonds, currencies, and stocks of emerging nations are leading the investment pack this year as the dollar sinks to a four-year low and investors diversify beyond dollar-denominated venues.
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TRUMP NAMES WARSH AS NEXT FED CHAIRMAN
Donald Trump has named Kevin Warsh, a governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the George W. Bush administration, to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the central bank. Powell’s term expires in May.
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FED FREEZES INTEREST RATES
As widely expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-setting Open Market Committee made no changes to its policy interest rates at its 28 January meeting, leaving the rate on deposits at 3.5 percent and the lending rate at 3.75 percent.
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CHINA DRAFTS FIVE-YEAR PLAN TO RESTART CONSUMER ECONOMY
China’s senior state planners are creating a five-year plan to energize domestic consumption and address the imbalance between “strong supply and weak demand,” according to a 20 January press briefing by officials of the country’s National Development and Reform Commission.