MILAN (Reuters) – European shares, currencies and bonds rallied on Wednesday after U.S. inflation slowed in June, feeding bets the Federal Reserve is nearing the end of a series of steep interest rate rises. The U.S. consumer price index rose 3.0% year-on-year last month, scoring its smallest annual increase in more than two years, while…
By Aftab Ahmed and Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Surging food prices accelerated India’s annual retail inflation rate in June, snapping four months of easing and erasing any chance of a rate cut by the central bank this year. June retail inflation rose to 4.81%, higher than both the revised 4.31% for the previous…
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Inflation is slowing rapidly enough to allow the Federal Reserve to stop tightening U.S. monetary policy after what is still widely expected to be an interest-rate hike at its meeting in two weeks’ time, traders bet on Wednesday. Implied yields on futures tied to the U.S. central bank’s policy rate fell…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices rose modestly in June and registered their smallest annual increase in more than two years as inflation continued to subside, but probably not fast enough to discourage the Federal Reserve from resuming raising interest rates later this month. The Consumer Price Index gained 0.2% last month after edging…
By Sam Tobin and Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -Barclays on Wednesday won a UK Supreme Court appeal that turned on the extent of banks’ duties to protect customers from fraudsters, in a closely watched decision lawyers say could stem a flood of litigation. Fiona Philipp, a music teacher and long-time customer, sued the bank in…
(Reuters) – The interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan leapt back over 7% last week for the first time since last fall as financial markets adjusted to an expectation that the Federal Reserve would need to keep its benchmark rate higher for longer to beat back inflation. The average contract rate on…
BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s Vedanta will enter the market for the manufacturing of chips and displays this year, group chairman Anil Agarwal said on Wednesday, days after its joint-venture partner Foxconn pulled out of the $19.5 billion chipmaking project. Foxconn separately intends to apply for incentives under India’s semiconductor production plan. In an address to the…
By David Milliken, Huw Jones and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s economy is so far proving resilient to a surge in interest rates over the past year and a half, but it will take time for the full impact to feed through, the Bank of England said on Wednesday. The Bank last month raised rates…
By Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields will broadly fall over the coming year on expectations the Federal Reserve will soon end its hiking cycle, according to fixed-income strategists polled by Reuters, who also predicted a steeper yield curve in the year ahead. Since its March 24 low, the yield on the U.S….
By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies is plotting a return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of this year, according to research firms, signalling a comeback after a U.S. ban on equipment sales decimated its consumer electronics business. Huawei should be able to procure 5G chips domestically using its…
