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  • Sep 04, 2024

Fed's Daly says rate cuts needed to keep labor market healthy

The Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates to keep the labor market healthy, but it is now down to incoming economic data to determine by how much, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said on Wednesday. "As inflation falls, we've got a real rate of interest that's rising into a slowing economy; that's a basic recipe for over-tightening," Daly told Reuters in an interview. Labor market health, she said, has to be "sustained and protected, and we have to be very mindful that if policy is overly tight, you might get additional slowing in the labor market, and to my mind, that would be unwelcome."

  • Sep 04, 2024

Dollar weakness to stall as markets over-egg Fed rate cuts: Reuters poll

Recent U.S. dollar weakness will stall in the coming three months despite financial market traders ramping up bets for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, according to a majority of foreign exchange strategists surveyed by Reuters. After surging about 5% against a basket of major currencies by midyear, the greenback lost almost all its gains as interest rate futures started pricing in about 100 basis points of Fed easing this year, nearly double June's expectations. That was driven in part by July labor market data showing signs of a slowdown, bolstered by reassurance from Fed chair Jerome Powell in his latest speech at Jackson Hole hinting rate cuts were coming.

  • Sep 04, 2024

In Trump-Backed Crypto Project, Insiders Are Poised for Unusually Big Token Payouts

A whopping 70% of Trump-backed World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens will be reserved for the project's insiders, according to a white paper draft obtained by CoinDesk. World Liberty Financial, the new crypto lending platform promoted by former U.S. President Donald Trump and his sons, advertises itself as a way of "putting the power of finance back in the hands of the people" and a solution to the "rigged" traditional finance system. CoinDesk has obtained a draft white paper for the project.

  • Sep 04, 2024

China’s Earnings Setback Sows Fresh Doubts About Stock Rebound

(Bloomberg) -- China’s stock market is facing darker prospects after a weak earnings season dashed hopes for any imminent recovery in flagging consumption that has weighed on the world’s No. 2 economy.Most Read from BloombergHow Air Conditioning Took Over the American OfficeHong Kong’s Arts Hub Turns to Selling Land to Stay AfloatThe Outsized Cost of Expanding US RoadsEarnings per share for the MSCI China Index fell 4.5% from the year earlier in the second quarter, its worst in five quarters, ac

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