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Stocks and U.S. equity futures slid on Monday, while havens including sovereign bonds rose, amid fears of an inflation shock in the world economy as oil soared on the prospect of a ban on Russian crude supplies. S&P 500 contracts fell 1.5%, Nasdaq 100 some2% and European futures about 3%. Brent...

Is the stock sell-off all about Russia and Ukraine? The current geopolitical threat is casting a psychological shadow over the markets and becoming an excuse for investors to resist taking on more risks, despite lower prices almost across the board. Wall Street is contending with the...

Happy Valentine’s Day! Unfortunately, we are not expecting love from Fed this week. Stocks are likely to be volatile in the week ahead as investors watch the tension between Russia and Ukraine and debate how quickly the Federal Reserve can raise interest rates. Oil demand has outpaced...

After January’s surprisingly strong jobs report, the focus will be on consumer inflation in the week ahead and what it could mean for the Federal Reserve’s plan to raise interest rates. Friday’s report of 467,000 jobs added in January confounded Wall Street economists, some of whom expected a...

The Fed entered into the new year needing to reset its credibility to control inflation at nearly a 40-year high. It has been nimble since its hawkish turn last fall as it doubled the pace of QE taper, brought forward the date of rates lift-off, and increased the number of anticipated rate hikes...

The market’s focus will be on fourth-quarter earnings this week. Stronger profit growth for economically sensitive stocks compared to technology players is expected. The earnings period could test a theory that value and cyclicals are set to outperform tech stocks. It will also be a time when...

After a stellar 2021, stocks head into 2022 with a tailwind. However, the course of the market in the new year will depend more on solid earnings growth and a strong economy than a super easy Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 rose 27% to 4,766 last year, notching 70 record closing highs. The...

US stocks are on track to end 2021 with another year of outsize gains. Many investors aren’t expecting a repeat in 2022. The S&P 500 has climbed 26% so far in 2021, after rising 16% in 2020. Rip-roaring corporate profits and easy monetary policy have fuelled the run. Earnings growth is expected...

A string of central bank meetings in recent days saw policymakers overlook economic risks from the Omicron strain in favour of damping price pressures that they had brushed off as temporary in the past few months. That led traders to price in more interest-rate hikes, sending ripples through...

The Labour Department said on Friday that inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in November, since1982, putting pressure on the economic recovery and raising the stakes for the Federal Reserve. In the end, such pressure may push the dollar further higher. The Consumer Price Index, which...

Investors retreated from US stocks on Friday, dumping shares held in large technology companies and sending the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index sharply lower. The Nasdaq closed down 1.9%, as a mixed US jobs report was seen as paving the way for more hawkish monetary policy, which would lead...

Investors have spent the past year learning to relax about the pandemic, lulled by abundant stimulus and expectations that vaccines would keep the virus in check. That sense of calm was shattered on Friday. Global stock markets tumbled by the most in a year, shaken by the discovery of a new...

Fundamental indicates that Gold may outperform the S&P 500 Index in the coming months as the threat of stagflation becomes real. Concerns over peak economic growth coincides with rising inflation, pushing the real yield on Treasuries to record lows. The high correlation between the real yield...

After the US reported better-than-expected nonfarm payroll data last Friday, the country’s CPI data for October will be due this week. With the labour market recovery back on track and likely to meet the Fed’s lowered bar for maximum employment by mid-2022, inflation may further accelerate. CPI...

The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce that it will begin winding down the bond-buying program put in place last year, at the end of its 2nd to 3rd November 2021 policy meeting. Investors increasingly expect Fed officials to start raising the benchmark interest rate, which is currently...