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 Andrew Gray, Sabine Siebold and John Irish VILNIUS (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets NATO leaders on Wednesday after they declared his country’s future lay inside the alliance but rebuffed his call for a timeline to membership. Zelenskiy will join the NATO leaders on the second day of their summit in Vilnius for…
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 David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to China has raised hopes in Beijing that Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports may be eased as she tries to smooth relations between the two nations, but strong anti-China sentiment in the U.S. may make that impossible. Trade and political…
(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…
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…
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s eight largest lenders have enough capital to ride out a worse economic crisis than that seen in 2008, the Bank of England (BoE) said on Wednesday, as the sector faces sharply rising interest rates pummelling consumers and businesses. The test checked if banks had enough capital to weather theoretical…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets leaned positively into another critical U.S. inflation report later on Wednesday, seeding a dollar slide to two-month lows that’s revved-up yen and sterling gains. The importance of the monthly U.S. consumer price report for Federal Reserve thinking and the…
