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After several years of extremely loose monetary policy, the U.S. Federal Reserve intends to start tightening, for clear reasons, markets will remain focused on the crucial monetary cycle, which is set to have a major impact on almost all asset classes. Economic data releases will provide clues to the robustness of economies- some of which are vulnerable to investment outflows as higher rates make U.S. assets more attractive. Emerging economies are already struggling to support currencies hit by Fed rate hike expectations. In this exclusive series we will provide insightful analysis and views on central banks decisions, emerging markets currencies, bond markets, Fed's tools for managing monetary cycle, investment outflows, including direct government intervention, the imposition of capital controls, and, indirectly, quantitative easing.

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

FED Hike Aftermath Series: Hike probabilities review post Yellen testimony

Jun 22, 2016 10:01 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said she would carefully gauge when to raise rates again as the central bank will have to assess that economic growth is on theright track and labour market conditions are improving after...

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

Fed provides little forward guidance on timing of a rate hike

Jun 16, 2016 16:59 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

As widely expected, the US Federal Reserve left the Fed funds target range unchanged at 0.25 to 0.50, postponing further monetary tightening. This is the fourth straight meeting in which the FOMC has decided against a rate...

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

FED Hike Aftermath Series: Rate hike expectations disappear from 2016

Jun 16, 2016 07:16 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

After a relatively dovish FED yesterday, where participants reduced their forecast for interest rates in 2017 by 30 basis points and 60 basis points for 2018, rates market backed away from pricing a hike this year. FOMC...

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

FED hike aftermath Series: Hike probabilities review ahead of FOMC

Jun 15, 2016 10:37 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Market participants just scaled back their expectations of interest rate rise from the Federal Reserve after Mays payroll report showed job gains of just 38,000 and previous two gains revised down by 59,000. Today,...

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

Fed’s May LMCI slides on poor employment report, likely to further delay the rate hike

Jun 07, 2016 06:03 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Federal Reserves Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) slid in May, following a poor performance from the labor market that too registered a decline in the same month, adding too few jobs into the US economy, slashing...

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

Fed’s Yellen seems positive on economic outlook, shrugs labor market concern   

Jun 07, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The United States Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, while speaking at an event in Philadelphia, affirmed her conviction of positivity on the overall outlook of the US economy, while warning that investors and other Fed...

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June hike off the table, Fed to seek more evidence before pushing rates higher

Jun 06, 2016 10:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

Non-farm payrolls report for May released last Friday showed US employment growth slowed sharply to 38k jobs in May which was weak even after adding back the 35k striking Verizon workers. Revisions to previous payroll data...

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Economy

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Reducing energy demand and improving efficiency will help prevent the next gas crisis

Gas prices have relaxed, Europe has come out of the winter with record gas storage levels and a surfeit of liquefied natural gas is set to reach the shores of Europe over the coming years. Many commentators are hopeful...

Minimum wage for South African farm workers: study shows 2013 hike helped reduce poverty even though compliance was poor

Minimum wage policies are typically aimed at reducing poverty. Yet there is little direct evidence of this effect, especially in developing countries. And none for South Africa. In a recent paper, we consider the...

Gas is good until 2050 and beyond, under Albanese gas strategy

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South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed

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Politics

US Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in 2022 by allowing voters to vote with gerrymandered maps instead of fixing the congressional districts first

For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of Black citizens. A 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in February...

Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections

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South Africa will be president of the G20 in 2025: two much-needed reforms it should drive

South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the European Union. Between them they represent 85% of global...

What early 2024 polls are revealing about voters of color and the GOP

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Science

Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests

One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newtons law of gravity to their visible matter, despite those...

Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of

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IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these relic neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they cant harm you. In fact, only one of them is...

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...

Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These two qualities are...

Technology

Shiba Inu Burn Rate Skyrockets 579%, 9.83 Million Tokens Burned in One Day

Shiba Inus burn rate surged by 579% in the past 24 hours, destroying 9.83 million tokens, according to Shibburn. The significant increase in token burns has caught the markets attention, with substantial transactions from...

Tesla Cybertruck Trails Ford F-150 Lightning in Sales as Q1 Figures Disappoint Wall Street

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Bitcoin Developers Tease Major Trigger for Next Bull Run: Programmability Upgrade

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This week, market experts spotlight Solana (SOL), Fantom (FTM), and Chainlink (LINK) as top altcoins to watch, highlighting their unique strengths and recent performance amid unusual market patterns. Solana Overcomes...
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