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Gold, Equities, Oil, Bonds: What next for these assets after Fed rate cut?

US Fed rate cut: Asian equities, however, saw meaningful gains Thursday morning where Indian stock market hit fresh record highs

Tactically cautious on India, Fed rate cut quantum a surprise: Chris Wood

If the US Federal Reserve (US Fed) rate cut is combined with a weaker dollar then the EMs (ex-China) should do well

US Fed slashes interest rates by 50 bps for the first time since 2020

Policymakers see the Fed's benchmark rate falling by another half of a percentage point by the end of this year, and another full percentage point in 2025

Street awaits US Federal Reserve's first interest rate cut in 4 years

History suggests that the start of a rate-cut cycle alone is not a reliable trigger for market rallies

10-year bond yield falls to 6.79% on US Fed rate-cut expectations

Market participants said that the demand for ultra-long government securities will continue given the favourable demand-supply dynamic

US Fed likely to start long-awaited interest-rate cuts from Sep 17 meet

Traders now see just a 15 per cent chance of a half-point rate cut at the Fed's Sept. 17-18 policy-setting meeting

US banks share fall on warnings of slower-than-anticipated recovery

Bank executives this week softened investor hopes ahead of a widely expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, as well as persistent worries over the economy

US consumer prices rise 0.2% in Aug, underlying inflation shows stickiness

In the 12 months through August, the CPI advanced 2.5 per cent. That was the smallest year-on-year rise since February 2021 and followed a 2.9 per cent increase in July

Fed VC unveils sweeping bank capital rule changes after pushback, delays

The draft Basel rule, first unveiled in July 2023, overhauls how banks with more than $100 billion in assets calculate the amount of capital they must put aside to absorb potential losses

Rupee to decline after US data indicates larger Fed rate cut unlikely

The 1-month non-deliverable forward indicated that the rupee will open at 83.90 to the US dollar

Bitcoin touches $65,000 mark on Powell pivot, streak of ETF flows

The largest digital asset rose as much as 1.2 per cent to $65,030 on Monday before dipping back to $63,780 as of 9:19 a.m. in New York

As Fed's focus shift to protecting job market, policy needs to catch up

Powell's signal of coming rate cuts completed a Fed shift that began in January when it acknowledged emerging job market risks

As US economy, Fed approach crossroads, all eyes on Powell, Jackson Hole

On Friday, Powell will again deliver his most important policy speech of the year from that closely watched stage

Fed chief Powell confronts policy crossroads with all eyes on Jackson Hole

The hotly anticipated speech at the Fed's annual gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, comes at a high stakes moment for the US central bank and the $27 trillion Treasury market

Weak dollar, western investor buying drive gold prices to record high

The dollar touched a seven-month low on Tuesday with traders bracing for comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday

Gold pares gains after hitting records as focus turns to Jackson Hole

Bullion climbed to as high as $2,531.75 an ounce, taking this year's gain to more than 22 per cent, before giving up some of the advance

Yen rises sharply, euro touches its highest this year as dollar retreats

The minutes of the Fed's July meeting, due on Wednesday, and Powell's speech on Friday are likely to be the main currency drivers in a week that will also see inflation data from Canada and Japan

As US Fed hints at rate cut speculation begins among central bankers

Inflation and the labor market have both cooled appreciably since then, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell says policymakers think the time for cutting the policy rate is approaching

Consumers could become discouraged unless rates drop: Bank of America CEO

At the end of July the Fed kept the policy rate in the same 5.25 per cent-5.50 per cent range it has been for more than a year, but signaled that a rate cut could come as soon as September

RBI likely to keep key interest rate unchanged at 6.5%, say experts

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to keep the key interest unchanged at 6.5 per cent on Thursday, and wait for more macroeconomic data before taking a call on rate cut in line with expectations, experts said. The US Federal Reserve has decided to maintain a status quo on its interest rate for now and indicated there could be monetary policy easing in the coming months. Amid persisting inflationary pressures, RBI will be closely tracking the US monetary policy trajectory before changing its stance on interest rate, which has remained unchanged since February 2023, experts opined. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) may also refrain from rate cut as economic growth is picking up, notwithstanding the elevated interest rate of 6.5 per cent (repo rate). The meeting of the Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das headed MPC is scheduled for August 6 to 8. Das will announce the decision of the rate-setting panel on August 8 (Thursday). The central bank last hiked the repo rate to 6.5 pe