By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans said last month that access to credit was at its toughest level in nearly a decade, as they also braced for higher levels of inflation over the next few years, a report from the New York Fed said Monday. In the March Survey of Consumer Expectations,…
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve’s preferred bond market signal of an upcoming recession has plunged to fresh lows, bolstering the case for those who believe the central bank will soon need to cut rates in order to revive economic activity. Research from the Fed has argued that the “near-term forward spread”…
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy and Chuck Mikolajczak (Reuters) – U.S. dividend funds have faced steep outflows this year after strong inflows last year as investors rush to safer money market funds and bank deposits, providing high returns without much risk. Interest rates on short-tenor bonds have risen this year on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve…
By Tom Sims and Marta Orosz FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Complaints from consumers about banks and other financial firms in Germany rose by a fifth last year, official data shows, as regulators flex their muscles to shore up trust in the sector. BaFin, Germany’s financial watchdog, has been increasing its focus on consumer protection in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-funded watchdog, fined Goldman Sachs Inc $3 million on Tuesday for mistakenly marking some of its stock orders as “long” instead of “short”, and for trade reporting violations. From October 2015 to April 2018, Goldman mismarked around 60 million short sale orders totaling more…
By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street bankers face an increasingly gloomy job market after last month’s banking crisis worsened an already bleak outlook for pay and staffing. The failure of two U.S. banks – Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank – shook confidence in the industry and prompted government intervention to protect the…
By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – Even as bitcoin flies high, investors are keeping their options open, judging by a record race to derivatives. Open interest for bitcoin options and futures has spiked over the past month as fear has stalked global banking, hitting an all-time high of 433,540 contracts on March…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service will unveil its long-awaited 10-year spending plan for $80 billion in new funding to beef up enforcement and taxpayer services, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday, promising major investments in new technology and services. In prepared remarks at the swearing-in ceremony of new IRS Commissioner Danny…
By Mark Miller (Reuters) – The forecast for Social Security got a bit more cloudy last week, with the program’s trustees projecting that the critical retirement program will run short of cash one year earlier than had been forecast last year. But if the headlines stemming from the annual report of the Social Security trustees…
By Nell Mackenzie, Carolina Mandl and Summer Zhen LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) – March’s market turmoil has forced many macro and trend-following hedge funds to cut bait on bad portfolio bets and caused at least one bank that lends to them to scrutinize its clients’ exposure, according to sources and preliminary data reviewed by Reuters….
