Dollar Steadies After Powell’s Testimony; Sterling Awaits BOE Meeting
The U.S. dollar stabilized in early European trade Thursday near a one-month low after the first day of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s semi-annual testimony to Congress, while sterling edges lower ahead of the latest Bank of England meeting. At 01:50 ET (05:50 GMT),...
Crude Oil Lower; Monthly Demand Reports in Focus
Oil prices fell Monday, consolidating after last week’s strong gains ahead of the release of demand forecasts from the OPEC and the IEA as well as a deluge of potentially influential economic data due this week. By 04:35 ET (09:35 GMT), U.S. crude futures...
Will biometric cards change the way benefits are dispensed?
Humanity’s evolving nature has propelled it up the food chain, from prey to planetary predator. Just 60,000 years ago, homo sapiens roamed the earth, insignificant and insecure, their existence of little consequence. Life, as Thomas Hobbes put it, was ‘nasty, brutish, and short’. Fast...
Asian Stocks Rise Tracking Positive U.S. GDP, Adani Extends Losses
Most Asian stock markets rose on Friday as appetite for risk-driven assets was supported by better-than-expected U.S. economic growth data, while Indian stocks extended their descent as heavyweight Adani remained under pressure from a short seller report. Overnight data showed that the world’s largest...
South Korea Dec Factory Activity Weakens on Demand Slump, Trucker Strike – PMI
South Korea's factory activity shrank for a sixth consecutive month in December, a business survey showed on Monday, as the global economic downturn and a local truckers' strike led to the worst slump in demand in 2-1/2 years. The S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) purchasing managers'...
China Q4 GDP Slows on COVID Woes, But Beats Expectations
The Chinese economy grew at a slower pace in the fourth quarter of 2022, data showed on Tuesday, as disruptions caused by the country’s now relaxed zero-COVID policy weighed heavily on business activity, although the reading still beat expectations. Chinese gross domestic product (GPD)...
Global banks raise forecast to 4% peak for key ECB rate
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), BNP Paribas (OTC:BNPQY), Uncredited (BIT:CRDI) and RBC Capital Markets had earlier expected the ECB’s terminal rate to peak at 3.75%, following a 25 basis points (bps) hike in July, they said in notes after the central bank meeting. The ECB raised...
Asia FX Weakens On recession Wo Yen Supported By Yield Cap Bets
Most Asian currencies retreated on Thursday as weak U.S. economic data pushed up fears of a potential recession, while the Japanese yen recouped most of its recent losses on speculation that the Bank of Japan may yet increase its yield control range. The yen...
Asia FX Rallies on China Reopening, Yuan at Over 4-Mth High
Most Asian currencies shot up on Monday, with the Chinese yuan hitting a four-month high after the country reopened its international borders, while hopes of a less hawkish rhetoric from the Federal Reserve also weighed on the dollar and supported regional units. The yuan...
Electric car makers ride on sops to woo cab operators
The following article is an analysis of data taken from the INOMICS Salary Report 2020/21 - which is available to download in full here. Specifically, this article looks at the average salaries of economists around the world working in academia, the public sector and the...