The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.21%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.28% this morning as market participants continued to assess the path of Federal Reserve monetary policy following a solid U.S. jobs report while bracing for the start of the earnings season and inflation…

Gold prices retreated from one-year highs on Thursday as the dollar regained some ground, while investors awaited the US non-farm payrolls report to gauge the Federal Reserve's monetary policy strategy. Spot gold fell 0.4% to $2,013.13 per ounce by 0701 GMT, after hitting its highest since March 2022 on Wednesday.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will hold a periodic meeting on Thursday when options to contain successive shocks to the Egyptian economy remain limited before growing local and global crises. CBE will likely raise interest rates at today’s meeting to curb inflation, which…

Inflation needs to be brought under better control before the Federal Reserve starts reversing its monetary policy of boosting interest rates, a Miami-based regional executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said Tuesday, during a regional economic summit at Key Biscayne.

Rekindled recession worries amid upheaval in the banking sector and the Fed’s further tightening of monetary policy could keep the stock market volatile in the near term. Given this backdrop, we think the strong growth prospects of UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Danaher Corp. (DHR), and ServiceNow (NOW) make these stocks solid…

Brazil's central bank monetary policy director Bruno Serra has left his position at his request, according to the official gazette on Monday, backdated to March 23, while the new administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has yet to announce a replacement candidate.

The Bank of England is faced with the sort of choice that central bankers prefer not to confront. Inflation is far too perky, which warrants higher interest rates. The global financial system, however, is in an unexpected state of stress: the financial “central heating” is on the blink. Past financial…

The foundation of China's economic recovery is not solid enough, a senior Communist Party official said on Saturday, warning of possible spillover effects from global economic problems. Some countries have to play a balancing act as they try to stabilize their economies, prices and financial markets, said Han Wenxiu, deputy…

History remembers Paul Volcker as the slayer of inflation, and Ben Bernanke as the crisis firefighter. Jerome Powell is in danger of having to play both roles at once — or, what may be worse, to choose between them.