© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C./File Photo By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -State banks that are a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve system should obtain a written supervisory nonobjection from the Fed before issuing, holding or transacting in dollar tokens used to facilitate payments, such as stablecoins, the central
Share: USD/JPY recovers from the lowest level in a week, prints the first daily gain in three. US 10-year Treasury bond yields consolidate the biggest daily slump in three months. China-linked fears, hawkish BoJ Summary of Opinions and pre-inflation moves propel Yen prices. US CPI, PPI and BoJ chatters will be important for
Fed’s Bostic The Fed funds market is pricing in a decline to 4.04% at the end of 2024 right now with cut pricing accelerating around May. You can imagine there will be some genuine enthusiasm in equities when we get a better sense of when cuts are coming but that will also depend on what
Share: According to Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee, they should start thinking about how long to hold rates. In an interview with Bloomberg, he said that the last couple of inflation readings were pretty positive. Regarding Fitch’s US credit downgrade, Goolsbee mentioned that it won’t make much difference. On the
Share: Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic said on Friday to Bloomberg, that the central bank is likely to keep monetary policy in a restrictive territory well into 2024. He added that the Fed is on a trajectory to get to the 2% inflation target. Asked about the recent jobs report, Bostic
Share: Economists at CIBC Capital Markets expect the USD/MXN pair to extend its decline in the coming months. Long MXN positions look overstretched by a number of metrics Although long MXN positions look overstretched by a number of metrics, we are reducing our Q3 and Q4 USD/MXN forecast to 17.50, and 18.00, respectively.
CIBC continues to believe the Federal Reserve will raise rates by 25 basis points once again in September. The below consensus hiring and past downward revisions suggests that the labor market is coming into better balance. Still, the drop in the unemployment rate and solid wage growth will keep the Fed on track for a
As we noted in our Fundamental Analysis today, data on GDP, the labor market, and inflation are the determining factors for the Fed when planning monetary policy parameters. If the official employment data due on Friday (at 12:30 GMT) also turns out to be strong, Fed officials will have an additional argument in favor of
Share: USD/JPY seesaws at three-week high despite latest retreat. 10-year JGB yields jump to highest since 2014, BoJ announces unscheduled no-limit bond-buying. US Dollar bulls take a breather after US credit rating downgrade, ADP Employment Change favored buyers the previous day. A slew of US data eyed for clear directions, yields are the
Share: Gold price recovers as investors await US labor market data. The US Dollar Index struggles for a firm footing as US Factory activities contract for ninth months consecutively. The impact of a decline in Gold demand, reported by the World Gold Council, starts fading. Gold price (XAU/USD) bounced back after gauging intermediate
