The window dressing phenomenon is expected to again influence financial market movements throughout 2025, especially as each quarter approaches its close. This strategy is generally employed by investment managers to enhance portfolio performance in periodic reports, often encouraging the strengthening of risky assets such as stocks. However, this shift in sentiment also has different implications for hedge funds, particularly gold. Quarter One (Q1): Limited Pressure for Gold At the end of March 2025, Q1 window dressing tended to be moderate. Funds began flowing into blue-chip stocks after...
Slowing payroll growth in the U.S. is more likely the result of weaker demand for workers rather than reduced labor force from tightened immigration policies, according to San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly. In an essay published Monday, Daly noted that slowing wage growth indicates businesses need fewer workers rather than struggling to find employees amid immigration restrictions implemented by the Trump administration. Monthly job growth in the U.S. has declined from approximately 150,000 per month in 2024 to around 50,000 in the first half of 2025. "Demand for workers...
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 reports. These results bolstered their confidence that central bank policymakers still have a good, if rough, alternative ahead of the October 28-29 meeting: between surveys proven to closely track the economy, private data the Fed has used for years, and new insights from emerging technology...
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Thursday said the lack of official data on inflation during the government shutdown "accentuates" his caution about cutting interest rates further. "I lean more to the, when it's foggy, let's just be a little careful and slow down" Goolsbee said in an interview with CNBC. Fed policymakers are relying on private data and their own surveys and outreach to gauge where the economy is heading while official economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other U.S. agencies is on pause during what is now a record-long federal government...
Parts of the U.S. economy, particularly housing, may already be in recession because of high interest rates, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, repeating his call for the Federal Reserve to accelerate rate cuts. "I think that we are in good shape, but I think that there are sectors of the economy that are in recession," Bessent said on CNN's "State of the Union" program. "And the Fed has caused a lot of distributional problems with their policies." Bessent said that, although the overall U.S. economy remains solid, high mortgage rates still hinder the real estate market....
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 tighter labor market. The RBA Board also recognized that the full impact of the previous rate cut had not yet been fully felt, choosing to remain cautious and update its outlook based on evolving data. The RBA also emphasized the importance of monitoring developments in the global economy, financial...
Asian stock markets fell in unison on Thursday, following Wall Street's decline. A brief rally in tech stocks led by Nvidia quickly faded, prompting investors to turn away from riskier assets like...
Pasangan mata uang EUR/USD mengawali pekan ini dengan nada sedikit melemah di sesi Asia, diperdagangkan di sekitar 1,1730, turun kurang dari 0,10% dalam sehari. Meski terkoreksi, euro masih berada...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States may store and possibly sell oil seized off the coast of Venezuela in recent weeks, as Reuters reported on Monday.
Trump added that...