Saturday, 8 November 2025 02:44 WIB | Fiscal & monetary
Two weeks before the US Federal Reserve's final meeting, with the federal government's data taps closed, Atlanta Fed staff bolstered their economic outlook by analyzing how previous surveys of business executives aligned with data on employment, spending, output, and other data recorded in federal...
Tuesday, 4 November 2025 17:18 WIB | Fiscal & monetary
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to maintain the cash rate at its current level following its November policy meeting. The RBA assessed that despite improving financial conditions, inflationary pressures remain in the economy, particularly with recovering private demand and a slightly...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025 22:11 WIB | Fiscal & monetary
The Fed is expected to cut the federal funds rate by 25bps at its October 2025 meeting, bringing its target range to 3.75%–4.00%. A similar cut is expected in September, which would lower borrowing costs to their lowest level since 2022.
Markets will be closely watching the December guidance,...
Friday, 22 August 2025 14:18 WIB | Fiscal & monetary
Fed Chair Powell's looming speech at the annual Jackson Hole symposium will be the next catalyst for the U.S. dollar moves, says Joe Capurso, an economist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Still, don't expect Powell to give a clear signal in either direction.
He is likely to keep his options...
Trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) was halted on Friday (November 28th) following a cooling issue at one of its data centers.
"Due to... 
Conflicting signals from the Federal Reserve on the timing and magnitude of U.S. interest rate cuts have accelerated hedging flows into swaptions... 
Both the STOXX 50 and the STOXX 600 hovered around the flatline on the final trading day of a volatile November, as the recent rally in global... 
European stocks ended Friday in positive territory as investors digested the end of a choppy month.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed the session...