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US: Wall St slips at open with Fed in focus
Wall Street’s main indexes opened marginally lower on Tuesday (Aug 20), as investors refrained from risk taking in the lead-up to the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s...
Overseas funds return to Indonesian bonds on dovish Fed bets
INDONESIA’S bond market is set to erase its outflows for the year as overseas investors pile into rupiah debt amid imminent interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Global funds...
Gold holds ground above US$2,500 on weaker dollar; markets await Fed minutes
GOLD prices held above the US$2,500 mark on Tuesday (Aug 20), buoyed by a weaker US dollar and Treasury yields, while traders awaited minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last...
Traders need Fed go sign in Jackson Hole to keep stocks rallying
WALL Street is betting that Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will confirm that interest-rate cuts are coming at the central bank’s annual confab in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. But as...
Fed chair Powell to headline next week’s Jackson Hole meet
FEDERAL Reserve chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to deliver remarks on the economic outlook next Friday (Aug 23), the first full day of the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic...
Gold subdued as hopes for deeper Fed rate cut dim
GOLD prices were flat on Thursday (Aug 15) after a 1 per cent drop in the last session, as US data showing consumer prices rose as expected last month...
Europe: Stoxx 600 hits two-week closing high as Fed rate cut bets strengthen
EUROPE’S benchmark stock index closed at a near two-week high on Tuesday (Aug 13), as growing hopes of an interest rate cut from the US Federal Reserve in September...
Gold holds ground on US Fed rate-cut hopes, lower yields
GOLD prices held steady on Friday (Aug 9) after a sharp rise in the previous session, bolstered by a dip in US Treasury yields, as investors grew confident that...
