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The Return of the Usual Suspects: Risky Sovereigns Ride the Global Yield Hunt

Some of the world’s most precarious sovereign borrowers are tiptoeing back into international debt markets, eager to cash in on investors’ growing appetite for yield,...

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...

Powell’s December Warning Exposes the Fed’s Growing Rift

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s blunt message that investors should temper their hopes for another rate cut in December has laid bare the widening rift...

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...

Finance Ministers and Central Bankers Confront a Debt Time Bomb

Gathered in Washington for the IMF’s annual meetings, finance ministers and central bankers find themselves facing a global trading system in disarray, uncertainty over the...

The Dollar Refuses to Die — Much to Everyone’s Annoyance

For most of the year, shorting the dollar has been the foreign-exchange world’s favourite pastime. In a $9.6 trillion-a-day market, that’s no small hobby. Yet...

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...

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...

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