Central bank blunders undermine tough rate talk
LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Words are fighting it out with numbers in financial markets at present. Comments by...
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Bank of England drags Bagehot into the shadows
LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Walter Bagehot’s 1873 book “Lombard Street” is a bible for financial policymakers. The English...
Morning Bid: Waller to Wall St, Fed’s on the turn
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike DolanAs Wall Street mourns the passing of...
EU watchdogs muck up Amazon’s messy iRobot cleanup
Signage is seen at an Amazon facility in Staten Island, New York City, U.S., April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Acquire...
Morning Bid: Giving thanks you’re not in China stocks
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 26, 2023....
Morning Bid: AI buzzes but market shrugs at Nvidia beat
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly before the closing bell as the market...
Crushed FX volatility as dollar, finally, subsides
LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - If you were looking for a klaxon to mark the end of the interest rate cycle, a crushing of currency market volatility rings loudly.Deutsche Bank's CVIX (.DBCVIX) - the currency market's version of Wall St's "fear index" of stock volatility and a weighted average of implied "vol" in nine major pairings - has basically imploded.Subdued since mid-year, the CVIX took another sharp leg lower this month and hit its lowest since mid-February 2022 - just before Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the first of the...
US crude oil bears risk reversal from crowded trade
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Investors have rarely been more bearish about oil prices as a slowing economy and an increase in non-OPEC output lead them to conclude OPEC⁺ production cuts will not prevent a rise in inventories.Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 7 million barrels in the six most important petroleum-related futures and options contracts over the seven days ending on Nov. 14.Fund managers had sold petroleum in seven of the last eight weeks cutting their position by a total of 338 million barrels since...
Morning Bid: Treasury yields dive as oil craters, economy softens
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly before the closing bell as the market...
Measuring the US and China’s conscious decoupling
MUMBAI, Nov 16 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The United States prefers to talk about efforts to reduce its dependence on China...
