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The Federal Open Market Committee is now widely expected to agree on an accelerated timetable for reducing its bond purchases at its meeting this week, and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell may provide some...

Key upcoming central bank policy decisions include the Fed Despite recent good news, negative Omicron headlines could still hurt markets  Markets are likely to remain in some sort of holding...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.comNext week could be huge for markets with Wednesday's December FOMC meeting and press conference. Expectations have been building that the Fed will...

The Bitcoin meltdown that took on speed this weekend continues today. The selloff of the digital currency has now taken the token below the psychological round $50,000 threshold, a level beneath which...

If there was any doubt before that Christine Lagarde is out of her depth as head of the second-most important central bank in the world, the floundering at the European Central Bank (ECB) in the face...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.comWouldn’t it be ironic if, at the exact moment that the Fed threw up its hands and capitulated on its transitory inflation narrative,...

When it finally came on Monday, the announcement from US President Joseph Biden that he was going to nominate Jerome Powell to a second term as Chair of the Federal Reserve, it was anticlimactic;...

Omicron variant pressures global markets; seen as the most heavily mutated yet S&P 500 suffers worst post-Thanksgiving selloff on record Oil plunges more than 12%, drops below $70 Fears of the...

As the various Fed whisperers try to influence President Joseph Biden’s decision on who should head the US central bank, the consensus seems to be growing that Jerome Powell will be appointed to...

Will seasonality statistics for an equity rally in the holiday shortened week prove true again this year? Will this week's PCE data repeat last week's strong retail sales? Will cyclicals suffer amid...

Reflation trade reverses Gold continues to rally Bitcoin slumps further Key EventsUS futures on the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 were trading mixed on Wednesday ahead of the US session open...

Central banks, led by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, are losing credibility as they stubbornly insist that inflation is transitory and it is all right for them to sit on their...

After consumer spending plunged, retail sales will be monitored to determine inflationary impacts Stocks and Treasuries sell-off together, gold and dollar rise in tandem In the US, consumer spending...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com.Since early October, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 have rallied as much as 10% and 15%, respectively. The push higher has been tied to a...