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  • Over half of money managers bet on global recession this year

    global economy

    Over half of investors are fretting over the global economy tumbling into recession this year, new figures released today show. Some 58 per cent of money managers think global output will shift into reverse, up from a minority of 47 per cent, according to Bank of America’s latest global fund managers’ survey. The latest reading [...]

  • Ailing Haleon drags FTSE 100 lower as traders cheer cooling US inflation

    markets

    An ongoing slide in GSK and its consumer pharmaceutical spin out firm Haleon’s shares dragged London’s FTSE 100 lower today. The capital’s premier index fell 0.55 per cent lower to 7,465.91 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, dipped 0.26 per cent to [...]

  • US inflation under shoot boosts London’s FTSE 100 and Wall Street

    markets

    City traders today were boosted by signs of inflation cooling in the world’s biggest economy sparking a rally on Wall Street. London’s premier FTSE 100 index climbed 0.25 per cent to 7,507.11 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, surged nearly two per [...]

  • US inflation cools quicker than expected in sign Fed’s rate hikes are quashing prices

    August 10, 2022

    US inflation is cooling much quicker than experts are betting in a sign the Federal Reserve’s series of steep rate hikes are quashing price pressures. Prices climbed 8.5 per cent annually in the world’s biggest economy last month, down from a 40-year high of 9.1 per cent, the US Labor Department said today. Wall Street [...]

  • US inflation shock may force Fed to launch one percentage point rate hike

    August 9, 2022

    A scorching set of new US inflation numbers released tomorrow could force the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by the steepest amount in recent history, Wall Street analysts are betting. Fed chief Jerome Powell and co have already had to hike the world’s most important interest rate by 225 basis points since March, the [...]

  • Steaming US jobs market raises risk of another jumbo Fed rate hike

    August 7, 2022

    The US jobs market is still steaming despite the world’s biggest economy wobbling under the weight of soaring inflation and higher interest rates, figures published last week showed. America added 528,000 jobs in July, pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.5 per cent, below pre Covid-19 levels, according to data from the US Labor Department. [...]

  • Week ahead: City braces for soft economy data and US inflation figures

    August 7, 2022

    Top of City traders’ minds this week will be whether fresh GDP figures reveal the UK is already in the early stages of the drawn out recession the Bank of England forecast last week. Despite the economic doom, London’s FTSE 100 was broadly stable, edging 0.16 per cent lower to close the week at 7,439.74 [...]

  • Upbeat earnings fail to turn investors’ eyes from steep US technical recession

    July 28, 2022

    A string of upbeat earnings was not today enough to cushion City investor jitters over a slowdown in the US economy.  London’s premier FTSE 100 index dipped 0.04 per cent to 7,345.09 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, added 1.1 per cent [...]

  • US plunges into technical recession as rest of world braces for similar fate

    July 28, 2022

    The US economy has plunged into a technical recession in a sign of things to come for the rest of the world, figures published today revealed. The American economy unexpectedly shrank 0.9 per cent in the three months to June, marking the second successive quarter the economy has contracted, meeting the common definition of a [...]

  • Crypto prices surge after Fed hikes interest rates

    July 28, 2022

    Cryptocurrencies prices climbed after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 75 basis points for the consecutive second month to tackle high inflation. Bitcoin jumped 7.5 per cent to trade at $22,965.5 today while Ether soared 11.14 per cent to trade at $1,624.9 after being pummelled by the crypto crash and investor uncertainty.  The [...]

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