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The head of the largest U.S. bank said markets are underestimating the speed by which he expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. In a letter to shareholders released Monday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon added that short-term borrowing costs need to be “substantially” higher to address the rapid pace of price increases. “The stronger the recovery, the higher the rates that follow (I believe that this could be significantly higher than the markets expect),” Dimon penned in… Source link

The Federal Reserve announced that it would raise its benchmark Federal Funds Rate target range to between 0.25% and 0.50% last Wednesday in a long-awaited move seeking to combat decades-high inflation. The move is long overdue, Marketgauge.com Partner and Director of Trading Research & Education Michele Schneider told Yahoo Finance Live in a recent segment. “I think it should have happened already, quite honestly,” she said. “I think they should have been less concerned [with market… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. bond market reeled further on Tuesday, extending Monday’s declines after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s aggressive rate hike comments drove yields on short-dated Treasuries to one of their biggest daily jumps of the past decade. Most Read from Bloomberg The central bank chief’s hawkish tone led traders to rapidly ratchet up estimates for how aggressively the Fed will tighten monetary policy this year as rising commodity prices threaten to add fuel to the… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, March 17, 2022 The Federal Reserve finally took the plunge and raised rates. As expected, Fed Chair Jerome Powell led the Federal Open Market Committee to raise its benchmark interest rate target by 25 basis points. The Fed famously operates according to two mandates (actually it has three by law): price stability and maximum employment…. Source link

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates for the first time since 2018, as high inflation pushes the central bank to pull back on its extraordinary pandemic-era support. The U.S. central bank lifted its benchmark Federal Funds Rate by 0.25%, to a target range of between 0.25% and 0.50%. The Fed also noted that the economic outlook remains “highly uncertain” in the face of the war in Ukraine. By notching up rates, the Fed kicks off a process of raising borrowing… Source link

European stocks rose as all eyes are firmly focused on the Federal Reserve meeting later today – the first in four years, where an interest rate hike is expected. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty European stocks pushed higher on Wednesday as investors awaited a widely anticipated decision by the US Federal Reserve on interest rate policy. In London, the FTSE 100 (^FTSE) rose 1.3% after opening, while the CAC (^FCHI) gained 2.1% in Paris, and the Frankfurt DAX (^GDAXI) was 2%… Source link

Stock futures opened little changed Tuesday evening as traders stood by for the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision and updated economic outlook on Wednesday. Contracts on the S&P 500 drifted flat to slightly lower. Earlier, the index closed higher by more than 2%, gaining for the first time in four sessions as volatility gripped U.S. equities. The Nasdaq Composite also ended a three-session losing streak to end nearly 3% higher. Energy prices unwound more recent gains, and West… Source link

Stock futures jumped Wednesday morning as traders awaited the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision and updated economic projections later in the day. More positive developments on the outlook for Russia-Ukraine talks also helped boost U.S. and global equities. Contracts on the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq were each higher by more than 1% in pre-market trading. These moves built on gains from Tuesday, when the S&P 500 closed higher by more than 2% to shake off some of the volatility… Source link

The S&P 500 and Dow rose Monday to shake off some recent losses, with investors looking ahead to the Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy decision later this week amid an ongoing war in Ukraine and soaring inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 0.7% just after market open as the index recovered some losses following five straight weekly losses. The Nasdaq erased earlier gains to trade lower. U.S. crude oil prices (CL=F) briefly dipped below $103 per barrel to a… Source link

By Stuart A. Thompson, The New York Times Company On an episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast last year, he turned to a topic that has gripped right-wing communities and other Americans who feel skeptical about the pandemic: search engines. “If I wanted to find specific cases about people who died from vaccine-related injuries, I had to go to DuckDuckGo,” Rogan said, referring to the small, privacy-focused search engine. “I wasn’t finding them on Google.” Praise for DuckDuckGo… Source link