The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

Soaring energy costs, stagflation fears and calls for higher wages are just some of the bumps in the road awaiting a new or returned government

The stock market has witnessed a massive sell-off lately on concerns over the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes to fight the decade-high inflation. Many analysts expect the economy to slip into recession due to the Fed’s monetary policy tightening. Since the medical device industry is known to be one of…

The Nasdaq Composite Index, the benchmark for technology stocks in the US, fell to its lowest level since November 2020 on Thursday, May 5, which can be attributed to a number of factors, including lacklustre earnings from e-commerce firms like eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and macro-economic factors like the Federal R

The Fed’s monetary policy tightening and deepening supply chain disruptions weighed heavily on the market sentiment and caused a massive sell-off in the tech industry over the past few weeks. Although many big tech stocks plummeted, high-quality tech stocks Microchip Technology (MCHP), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), International Business Machines (IBM), Broadcom…

Although the technology sector’s sell-off on concerns over the Fed’s monetary policy tightening has seen semiconductor chip stocks plunge in price lately, growing demand for advanced microchips and increasing corporate and government investments to ramp up production and ease the chip shortage should help these stocks rebound quickly. Therefore, we…

The stock market has been under pressure of late for various macroeconomic and geopolitical reasons. Investors are primarily worried now that the Fed’s aggressive monetary policy tightening to tame surging inflation could tip the economy into recession. We think investors who believe the market has still to hit bottom even…

Worries over the Fed’s monetary policy tightening, and intensifying supply chain disruptions, have caused a broad-based sell-off in the stock market of late. Since technology has been one of the worst-hit sectors, many quality tech stocks have entered oversold territory. So, given the industry’s solid growth prospects, we think it…

The yuan could weaken further against the U.S. dollar in the coming months, ending the year at 6.9

The dollar index hovered near 20-year highs against major peers on Friday, as market sell-offs in the face of global recession fears propped up the safe haven currency. European stocks opened lower and were heading for their worst week in two months, following a rout on Wall Street, Reuters said.…