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Fed interest rate hike
US Fed pauses rate hikes but signals more tightening to come
Wednesday’s hold is the first pit stop in the central bank’s most aggressive tightening campaign in decades.
June 15, 2023
US Economy
Fed slows rate hikes even as Powell says there's more work to do
Powell and his colleagues lifted the Fed’s target for its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of 4.5% to 4.75%
February 02, 2023
US Economy
Fed delivers third-straight big hike, sees more increases ahead
The US Fed has raised interest rates by 75 basis points for the third consecutive time and forecast they would reach 4.6% in 2023.
September 22, 2022
US stocks
Buy dips 'very selectively', remain diversified and buy gradually over coming months amid sharp drop in US stocks: OCBC
US stocks saw their worst day in over two years on Sept 13.
September 14, 2022
US Economy
Aggressive Fed moves back in play as yields surge on CPI shock
Two-year Treasury yields climbed to a 15-year high of 3.19% and the 10-year equivalent added as much as 4 basis points to 3.20%.
June 13, 2022
Investing strategies
2022: A year of reopening, rate hike and GST increase
After a false start in 2021, economic reopening is deemed inevitable, says Phillip Securities' Terence Chua.
February 17, 2022
US Economy
US Fed officials no rush to raise interest rates before scheduled policy meeting in March
Money markets suggest about even odds on the possibility of a 50 basis-point increase in March
February 11, 2022
China Focus
PBOC slashes reserve ratio once more as China faces bleaker end to the year
(Oct 8): China’s central bank cut the amount of cash lenders must hold as reserves for the fourth time this year, as policy makers seek to shore up the faltering domestic economy amid a worsening trade war.
October 08, 2018
Global Markets
Fed likely to raise interest rates 4 times in 2018 as US growth gains: Goldman Sachs
(Nov 20): The US economy is heading into 2018 with strong momentum that’s likely to boost wages and inflation more broadly, requiring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates four times next year, Goldman Sachs Group economists said in a research not
November 20, 2017
Global investor confidence levels up for Oct, but still shy of neutral reading
SINGAPORE (Oct 26): Institutional investors around the world have recorded an improvement in risk appetite for the second month running, driving State Street’s global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) up by 3.6 points to 99.1 in October from September’s
October 26, 2016