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Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, sounded a note of heightened concern over persistently high inflation as he emphasised that the central bank would begin tapering its bond purchases shortly while remaining patient on raising interest rates. The risks are now longer and more persistent...

It’s a currency seasonality thing for sure: the market gets calmer in June, only for price action to turn more volatile in July to August. It seems like 2021 could be another year that the Fed is going to take charge here. As the Fed begin its two-day meeting on 27 July, the Bank of England...

Jerome Powell has a goal that is bigger than the bond market’s near-term inflation concern. In perhaps his most forthright press conference since taking the helm of the central bank three years ago, the Federal Reserve chair laid out some critical messages for investors who have been propelling...