FED – GLOBAL MACRO INSIGHTS

AI, Austerity and Amnesia: US Firms Axe Jobs at Fastest October Pace in 22 Years

American companies announced the largest number of job cuts for any October in more than two decades, as artificial intelligence quietly redraws corporate headcounts and...

Fed Hawks Rebel as Powell’s Grip Slips

Three senior Federal Reserve officials have publicly distanced themselves from this week’s rate cut, underscoring the widening rift within the US central bank, and quietly...

Fed Splits Set to Widen as the Cut-Happy Camp Meets Reality

The Federal Reserve is poised to deliver a second consecutive rate cut this week to shore up a fragile labour market, but extending the easing...

The Fed’s Great Balance-Sheet Diet: Still Counting the Calories

Several participants at the Federal Reserve’s September policy meeting noted the importance of keeping a close eye on money market conditions — and of gauging...

The Fed Cuts Rates — and Walks Straight into the Fog

As widely expected, the Federal Reserve trimmed its policy rate by a quarter point on 17 September. The move was well-telegraphed, and Chair Jerome Powell...

America’s Gold Mirage: The $1 Trillion Ghost Asset

The US Treasury’s gold reserves have supposedly smashed through the $1 trillion mark—more than 90 times the amount recorded on the government’s balance sheet—as the...

Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Fed Purge on Ice – For Now

The US Supreme Court’s refusal to let President Donald Trump immediately sack Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has offered the central bank a fleeting reprieve...

Powell Buys Time as Trump’s Shadow Looms Over the Fed

Jerome Powell, the beleaguered chairman of the Federal Reserve, managed to herd a divided committee into backing a quarter-point rate cut, the first of the...

The Euro Finds Its Voice as the Dollar Trips Over the Fed

The euro has scaled its highest level in four years, brushing $1.1878 on Tuesday, as traders braced for the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited rate cuts. This...

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