Trading was thinned in Asia with Japan out for a holiday, though markets in mainland China got off to an upbeat start after returning from an extended break
Ahead of Thursday's decision, Governor Andrew Bailey has distanced Britain from resurgent consumer price pressures in the US, pointing to strong evidence of UK inflation receding
The yield on the benchmark 10-year government bond fell by three basis points to settle at 7.16 per cent, against 7.19 per cent on Tuesday
Bond investors have been struggling for months, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 70 basis points year-to-date
The 10-year yield was around the crucial 4.60% mark, while the two-year yield, a closer indicator of interest rate expectations was around 4.95%
Fed holds rates steady, flags 'lack of further progress' on inflation
China stocks were mixed in early trading with the blue-chip index easing 0.07%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 0.5%
Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She's planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along with a trip next year to neolithic sites in Great Britain. I really have more money to spend now than when I was working, said Harris, 64, an engineer who worked 29 years for the federal government and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Back then, she and her now-ex-husband were paying for their children's college educations and piling money into savings accounts. Now, she's splurging a bit and, for the first time, is willing to pay for first-class plane tickets. She plans to fly business class to Scotland and has arranged for a higher-level suite on the cruise. I suddenly realised, with my dad getting old and my mom dying, it's like, No, you can't take it with you,' she said. I could become incapacitated t
Spot gold was unchanged at $2,338.08 per ounce by 0932 GMT, holding slightly above its 21-day moving average of $2,336
Bloomberg Economics' Fed sentiment index - powered by a natural language processing algorithm based on more than 60,000 Fed headlines - shows that in December, Powell delivered a major pivot.
The economy grew at a 3.4% rate in the fourth quarter. The first quarter growth's pace was below what U.S. central bank officials regard as the non-inflationary growth rate of 1.8%
India's foreign exchange reserves have been hitting new peaks for the past seven consecutive weeks
The price of 22-carat gold also dipped Rs 10, with the yellow metal selling at Rs 67,540
Policymakers' preferred inflation gauge - the personal consumption expenditures price index - probably stayed elevated in March, according to data due in the coming week
IMF officials urged Asian central banks to stick to their own knitting and avoid the temptation to lash their policy decisions too closely to anticipated moves by the Fed
The price of 22-carat gold also dipped Rs 10, with the yellow metal selling at Rs 67,640
China doesn't have such inflation worries, but rise in the premium of US 10-year government bond yields over their Chinese equivalents to a record high has sparked concerns over depreciation of yuan
The price of ten grams of 24-carat gold in Mumbai is in line with prices in Kolkata and Hyderabad, at Rs 74,120
Powell's comments further squashed any lingering expectations of the Fed cutting rates in the near term, with markets pricing in September as the new starting point of the easing cycle
The worst thing to do is act urgently when urgency is not required, Daly, one of 19 US central bankers who set monetary policy, said at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research