Tag Archives: Dollar

A Fed-issued digital dollar could print money — for the people

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes his seat to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The writer is former Chair of the FDIC and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Financial Institutions. More and more informed observers are asking why, after 13+ years of the Federal Reserve’s increasingly… Source link

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Stocks clamber up from 4-week lows, dollar eases from 10-week high

By Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks recovered some losses after hitting a four-week low on Monday as investors continued to digest last week’s surprise hawkish shift by the U.S. Federal Reserve, while the dollar stood just below a 10-week high. Shares of banks, energy firms and other companies that tend to be sensitive to the economy’s fluctuations have fallen sharply since the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday, when the central bank caught investors off guard by anticipating two… Source link

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A $1.5 Billion Dollar (At Least) San Jose Campus

A rendering of a public gathering space for Google’s planned Downtown West campus Google After four years of planning meetings, including over 100 community sessions, the multi-purpose campus for Google received unanimous approval this week from the San Jose City Council. The 80-acre site will bring 4,000 residential units plus 7.3 million square feet of office space. The office buildings are to provide space for an estimated 20,000 workers. While all the land in the project… Source link

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Google cleared to build multi-billion dollar megacampus in San Jose

San Jose city officials on Tuesday night officially approved a plan for Google to build a massive campus in the heart of California’s third-largest city. For its “Downtown West” project, Google will develop 80 acres of land in downtown San Jose, including 7.3 million square feet of office space for 20,000 workers and thousands of housing units. It’s Google’s first mixed-use campus and will be one of its largest when completed. The San Jose city council unanimously approved the company’s plans… Source link

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Treasury Yields Rise on Growth Bets, Dollar Falls: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasury yields rose amid confidence the Federal Reserve will remain accommodative even as robust growth takes the world’s largest economy back to pre-pandemic levels. Stock-index futures were mixed. Havens including the dollar and government bonds were under pressure while copper, seen as a barometer of growth, surged to the highest in a decade. The U.S. 10-year rate bounced back from its 50-day moving average, underscoring the reflation trade is still alive, but… Source link

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Fed officials on the fence about adopting digital US dollar

The Federal Reserve is continuing its research on the use of a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC), but key officials are saying not to expect any Fed-issued digital dollars any time soon. “That fundamental question of, ‘what are we trying to do with this’ is not clearly answered,” Fed Governor Randal Quarles said in a webinar on Tuesday. The Fed is working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build and test a digital dollar in different hypothetical… Source link

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Asia Stocks Mixed as U.S. Futures Dip; Dollar Up: Markets Wrap

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential What goes up must come down, as we all know. This fact of physics is the underlying worry of the stock market, that fuels our suspicions of bubbles. But investment firm Goldman Sachs doesn’t believe we should worry; the firm’s chief global equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer gives several reasons to expect that the market’s current upward trend is real. His key points include the equity risk premium, the real… Source link

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Sterling up against dollar and euro as UK parliament approves Brexit deal

The pound gained 0.5% against the US dollar on Wednesday. Photo: Getty Sterling maintained its buoyancy in late afternoon trading in London after the UK parliament voted in favour of the deal 521 votes to 73 on Wednesday. “With the path of the Brexit deal expected to be smooth, sterling continues to be driven by broader market price action,” said Simon Harvey, FX market analyst at Monex Europe. “A weaker dollar has been the main theme of FX markets again this week, with liquidity… Source link

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Vaccine rollout could cause U.S. dollar to fall 20% in 2021

TipRanks RBC Predicts Over 100% Rally for These 3 Stocks The news lately is focused on the advent of coronavirus vaccines. First Pfizer announced that it had a product in trials, which was showing a 90% efficacy rate, and now Moderna has joined the chorus, with a vaccine that is showing even higher effectiveness, on the order of 94.5%. Between the two news releases, investors are feeling confident; we may be out of the COVID woods sooner than has been anticipated.In a report on the new vaccine… Source link

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Fed open to private sector collaboration in possible digital dollar

TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 3 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Markets thrive on risk, but risk is hard to talk about. It’s easy to fall back on cliches – buy low and sell high, or the bulls and bears make money while the pigs get slaughtered – but those cliches have drifted into common parlance for a reason. They have a grain of truth.Buying low and selling high has always been known as the way to make a profit, from the earliest days of human barter. And whether the market is… Source link

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