By Jeffrey Halley The ‘who can be the most hawkish Fed President’ quiz continued overnight as James Bullard came out swinging, suggesting that Fed Funds may need to rise to a “neutral”
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Following a shorter trading week in which equities declined, commodity prices shot up and US 10-year Treasury yields hit a new three-year high, US
By Jeffrey Halley The procession of central banks hiking rates in an attempt to see off inflation has continued over the last 24 hours. The Bank of Canada hiked by 0.50% overnight,
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity After a positive start to the week, US equity futures took a hit as bond yields rose across the curve, indicating that the recovery
By Jeffrey Halley New York had a relatively quiet session overnight, with Europe’s announcement that its next round of sanctions would include Russian coal imports, having no impact on energy prices. A
By Jeffrey Halley The FOMC minutes were released overnight and signalled a faster pace of balance sheet runoff than on previous occasions, targeting $95 billion per month from September, easing into the
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity The first three months of 2022 have been one to forget. The S&P 500 ended the quarter down 4.95%, its worst performance since the
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Investing in 2022 has proved to be challenging for many investors. Inflation has been skyrocketing in almost all developed and emerging economies, and central
By Han Tan, Chief Market Analyst at Exinity Group Bonds are extending their slump worldwide, driven by fears that central banks have to get more aggressive in quelling red-hot inflation. Earlier this
By Craig Erlam Stock markets made decent gains on Tuesday, bouncing back quickly from the disappointment late Monday as Fed Chair Powell turned the hawkish dial up a notch. It didn’t take
