Federal Reserve

The RBA surprised markets by hiking 0.25% in October. The Bank remains hawkish. More rate hikes are set to follow over the rest of 2022. But the RBA’s move to slower...

There is a saying in markets: Don’t fight the Fed. It is a good adage. But sometimes the market gets the Fed's message wrong. The reaction to the Fed’s latest 0.75%...

Central to the perpetuation of stock market cycles are emotions: excitement, hope, avarice, perhaps some envy. These are ever-present in our makeup, so they alone...

Welcome to a historic edition of Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our...

Rain, hail or shine, investors must make investment decisions for the betterment of their holdings. But when a record bull market looks set to falter, hitting...

The S&P 500, NASDAQ and even Bitcoin started to recover some of their losses last week, that is, before yet another nuclear threat. But Russia is the least of...

In the AFR I write that you should buckle-up and prepare for a wild ride in 2022. Investors will have to resolve the cognitive dissonance of buying equities at record...

Central banks have started to take back last year's rate cuts as their economies have recovered from last year's recession, lifting policy interest rates after...

In the AFR I write that financial markets are riddled with seemingly intractable inconsistencies right now. Arguably the best barometer of the global price of money,...

Short dated bonds have aggressively repriced as inflation expectations rise and fears creep in that central bankers maybe heading towards a policy mistake as longer...

Much of the market’s interest in the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) review of its monetary policy has focused on its embrace of average inflation targeting. While the...

November delivered a lot of reasons to be optimistic for the future ahead, with multiple vaccines announced, a settled US election and a democratic-republican spit...

The US dollar fell against all G10 currencies in July, in an orderly decline. More dramatic have been the surges in gold, up 10% in July including record highs and...

When the stock market sold off dramatically in March this year the US Federal Reserve responded by pumping financial markets with liquidity for the next three months...

The US dollar’s steep decline from mid-May to early June has been arrested, but unfortunately its comeback has been mostly driven by bad news. Equities have...

This week we had confirmation that Australia’s economy contracted in the March quarter. This was enough for even the government to concede that the economy is in...

Negative interest rates were a hot topic this week. President Trump repeated his support for the idea but even prior to this, several Federal Reserve officials said...

A sense of optimism is re-surging around the globe, as we see a glimpse of the COVID-19 ‘curve flattening’. The rate of increased cases of infection in the US and in...

The plunge in both short-term and long-term interest rates has sparked a debate about how other asset classes respond, including equities. In the wire below, I outline...

Crucial Question: Is It 1995 or 2007?Before reading this week's update on the global macro and equities picture, investors are advised to add three new words to their...