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Summers Sees ‘Tumult’ in 2023 With Reckoning for Bond Market

(Bloomberg) — Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the assumption embedded in the bond market that the era of low interest rates — anchored by disinflationary pressures — is coming back is likely to be wrong. Most Read from Bloomberg “I suspect tumult” for markets in 2023, Summers told Bloomberg Television’s “Wall Street Week” […]

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Wrong-Way Bets on Inflation Exposed Ahead of Fed Rate Decision

(Bloomberg) — Professional speculators with billions in bearish trades on the line endured a rough ride after Tuesday’s report on US consumer prices brought the latest sign that the Federal Reserve is making progress in its battle against inflation. Hedge funds that had amassed the biggest short position against Treasuries since March 2020 were caught […]

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US Core PCE Inflation Picks Up While Consumers Show Resilience

(Bloomberg) — A core gauge of US inflation accelerated in September, while consumer spending stayed resilient, indicating widespread price pressures and solid demand that reinforce the Federal Reserve’s case for another big interest-rate hike next week. The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy, a key measure of underlying inflation tracked by the […]

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‘It’s a Reality Check’: Wall Street Reacts to Inflation Data

(Bloomberg) — Investors, analyst and economists alike received a harsh reality check on Tuesday as inflation for the month of August topped expectations and sent US stocks tumbling by the most more than two weeks. The S&P 500 Index slumped as much as 2.7%, putting it on track to snap its longest winning streak in […]

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US Inflation Tops Forecasts, Cementing Odds of Big Fed Hike

(Bloomberg) — US consumer prices were resurgent last month, dashing hopes of a nascent slowdown and likely assuring another historically large interest-rate hike from the Federal Reserve. The consumer price index increased 0.1% from July, after no change in the prior month, Labor Department data showed Tuesday. From a year earlier, prices climbed 8.3%, a […]

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Treasuries Suggest Fed Can Tame Inflation Without Killing Growth

(Bloomberg) — The bond market is signaling that in the matter of the Federal Reserve versus inflation, its money is on the US central bank. Demand for inflation protection — as measured by yields on inflation-protected Treasury debt — keeps falling. The five-year expected inflation rate implied by those yields is back below 2.6%, down […]

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Brace for ‘Recession Shock’ as Outflows Rock Equities

(Bloomberg) — Investors bracing for a recession jolt accelerated their retreat from stocks after the Federal Reserve warned it won’t be easily deterred in its fight against inflation, Bank of America Corp. strategists say. Global equity funds had outflows of $9.4 billion in the week to Aug. 31, the fourth-largest redemptions this year, according to […]

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US Inflation Runs Cooler Than Forecast, Easing Pressure on Fed

(Bloomberg) — US inflation decelerated in July by more than expected, reflecting lower energy prices, which may take some pressure off the Federal Reserve to continue aggressively hiking interest rates. The consumer price index increased 8.5% from a year earlier, cooling from the 9.1% June advance that was the largest in four decades, Labor Department […]

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Banks Used to Provide Relief From Inflation. Now They Profit Big

(Bloomberg) — The last time inflation burned hot, consumers could put money in the bank and watch it grow like the prices on store shelves, easing much of the pain. Not this time — and that’s stoking profits for US lenders. The gap between what banks pay depositors and what they earn from lending money […]

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Two US Cost Gauges Surpass Estimates, Stoking Inflation Concern

(Bloomberg) — Two key US inflation gauges posted larger-than-forecast increases on Friday, heightening concerns that prices will remain persistently high and prompt continued aggressive interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve. The Labor Department’s employment cost index, a broad gauge of wages and benefits, increased 1.3% in the second quarter from the prior three months, compared […]

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Recession Now Looks Like the Price to Pay for Beating Inflation

(Bloomberg) — After underestimating the worst inflation outbreak in decades, central banks are now driving their economies headlong toward recession in order to tame prices. The stark outlook is stoking fears that policy makers will end up overreaching as they push ahead with aggressive interest-rate hikes, just as some now concede they overstimulated through the […]

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Stocks Dodge an Inflation Wipeout: Explaining the Tepid Reaction

(Bloomberg) — Data that landed like a gut punch on anyone hoping inflation had receded was received with notable poise by investors. Why that happened was the subject of frantic speculation Wednesday on Wall Street. While odds of draconian rate hikes jumped, so did shares of semiconductor producers, retailers and automakers. Tech stocks as tracked […]

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US Inflation Quickens to 9.1%, Amping Up Fed Pressure to Go Big

(Bloomberg) — US inflation roared again to a fresh four-decade high last month, likely strengthening the Federal Reserve’s resolve to aggressively raise interest rates that risks upending the economic expansion. The consumer price index rose 9.1% from a year earlier in a broad-based advance, the largest gain since the end of 1981, Labor Department data […]

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Fed Braces as Another Big US Inflation Number Looms: Eco Week

(Bloomberg) — US inflation data in the coming week may stiffen the resolve of Federal Reserve policy makers to proceed with another big boost in interest rates later this month. The closely watched consumer price index probably rose nearly 9% in June from a year earlier, a fresh four-decade high, based on the median projection […]

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Inflation Thunderbolt Primes Stocks, Bonds for More Volatility

(Bloomberg) — Stocks and bonds face more pain when markets open in Asia on Monday following a shock US inflation print that heaped pressure on the Federal Reserve to intensify monetary tightening. Equity futures indicate declines in Japan and Hong Kong after the worst drop in global stocks last week since October 2020. Asian sovereign […]

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