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His span was much wider than FedAlan Greenspan, the influential former Fed chair, guided US monetary policy for nearly two decades, overseeing an era of low inflation and ...
We still need cash in ATManirbhar BharatDespite the rise of digital payments, cash remains essential, yet ATMs are increasingly running out of money. Banks are reducing their ATM ...
The US is flirting with stagflation. What kind?Markets are discussing stagflation amid rising oil prices and slowing growth. However, the current situation is more akin to 'slowflation',...
Whether US is heading for recession or just 'detox,' downturns are costlyU.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick believes a recession could be justified to implement Trump's economic policies. While Treasury Secre...
Fed-friendly feeds: Subtle economic influence of social mediaBetween January 2022 and August 2024, the Federal Reserve executed its most aggressive interest rate increases since the 1980s, raising rat...
Smartkarma Research: Why a financial crisis could be the bulls' best hopeIn Fed Chair Powell's speech, he underlined that tight monetary policy will “bring some pain to households and businesses” but vowed to “ke...
Wall Street floats 100 basis-point Fed hike as inflation stingsWhile the consensus expectation for the US central bank’s interest rate increase at this week’s meeting is a half-percentage point, higher ...
The hideous strength of the U.S. DollarBar a handful of outliers, including the Brazilian real and the Peruvian sol, the dollar is omnipotent versus pretty much every currency in...
Stagflation: Have the central banks scheduled a rerun of That 70s Show?Fears of stagflation may not be unfounded as data suggests we are in the midst of a stagflation-type shock. But are we right in comparing t...
Be very cautious but put your bet on these 5 sectors: Ajay Bagga“If one has to invest in the market now, these sectors could be the top bets – financials, oil and gas as well as cement because coal price...
Explainer: Past Fed hiking cycles, from sanguine to severe, may say little about this oneThe aim of rate-increase cycles like this are to temper consumer and business spending. If interest rates on home equity loans rise, for ex...
Fed chair Jerome Powell admires Paul Volcker. He may have to act like himPowell was asked this month if the Fed was prepared to do whatever it took to control inflation - even if it meant harming growth, as Volck...
Bond traders gird for more pain after biggest loss since 1980The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Index has sunk 4.25% over the past three months.
Donald Trump needs to thwart recession-prone history of GOP presidentsOf course, as the saying goes, past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results and the billionaire developer may well avoi...
Trump may bring back an economic disaster from 1970sSince the election of Donald Trump, economists and analysts have once again begun to bring up the idea of stagflation hitting the US econom...
Raghuram Rajan comfortable with current policy rate"Rather than administer shock therapy to a weak economy, the RBI prefers to dis-inflate over time," the Governor maintained.
Banks seen at risk five years after Lehman collapseSystem still too leveraged, complicated and interconnected to withstand a panic; regulators ill-equipped to head off a crisis.
Economy facing stagflation: C RangarajanC Rangarajan, PMEAC chairman, is the first high ranking policy maker to declare that economy faces stagflation, a state of high inflation, ...
India is a very good investment: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman SachsThe ferocity of the crisis facing the firm, with politicians and regulators hot on its tail, has compelled the firm’s CEO Lloyd Blankfein, ...
- Fed's Yellen outlines rate policy dilemma
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen on Wednesday said the Fed is grappling with preventing 1970s-style inflation whil...