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Donald Trump haunts central banks primed for wary rate cuts in 2025Global central banks plan to cautiously cut borrowing costs in 2025, with the possibility of slower rate reductions compared to 2024. The F...
Fed pivot will dominate year of rate cuts in turn of global cycleThe US Federal Reserve will lead the pivot for richer countries after its policy makers signaled 75 basis points of cuts for the year, mark...
Charting the Global Economy: World growth precarious, weak trade shows China strugglingChina’s economic recovery showed further signs of weakening in May, clouding the outlook for the rest of the year and fueling calls for mor...
Charting the global economy: World growth forecasts slashedBloomberg Economics sees worldwide growth of 2.4% for 2023. Excluding the crisis years of 2009 and 2020, that’s the slowest rate since 1993.
Guardians of the world economy told to ‘buckle up, and keep going’ as outlook dimsThe IMF lowered its outlook for global economic growth, warning that central bank efforts to cool inflation might cause even greater harm. ...
Signs strengthen: A recession may be on the horizon for Euro areaThe latest S&P Global indexes this week showed business activity is deteriorating -- with gauges contracting for the US and euro area.
Inflation: High commodity prices, supply chain disruptions stoke input costsFed Chair Jerome Powell engineered the central bank’s biggest interest-rate increase since 1994 and held out the distinct possibility of an...
Charting global economy: Soaring food costs risk destabilizationThe costs of staples such as wheat and cooking oils continue to accelerate as Russia’s war in Ukraine, a key exporter of commodities, upend...
Asian manufacturing is surging on strong global goods demandThe data underline how demand for Asian exports is gaining from continued economic stimulus in countries such as the U.S., while vaccinatio...
The year unconventional monetary policy turned conventionalForced to think outside the box by the 2008 financial crisis and then again this year by the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve, Eur...
Central banks fret trade war more deflationary than inflationaryBankers echoed that concern at a time when the IMF is forecasting growth of 3.9% this year.
Bank of Japan shifts policy framework to targeting Japan’s yield curveGovernor Haruhiko Kuroda and the policy board kept the interest rate on a share of bank reserves unchanged at minus 0.1 per cent.
Bank of Japan may keep its stimulus fireworks on beyond 2018The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is likely to increase its record stimulus even more, said 28 of 33 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.