Jay Powell calls for more fiscal stimulus, BM...

Paramount Skydance is tackling a huge pile of debt following its takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, oil tanker captains are being paid rates equivalent to $100,000 a month for travelling through the Strait of Hormuz, and the UK’s tax authorities probed Manchester City in 2018. Pl ...  Show more

A sharp rise in US government borrowing costs this year is bleeding into the corporate debt market and Hong Kong’s de facto central bank questioned HSBC on why its new AI hub would be established in Singapore. Plus, Brazil’s currency, stocks and bonds jumped after rightwing presi ...  Show more

* Dow down over 1300 points in 2 days over Omicron variant concerns. * Bubble market found its pin. * Powell is essentially a member of the Biden administration. * The only tools the Fed has left will destroy the bubble economy if they use them. * Powell lies about the credit wor ...  Show more

A week after delivering a 25 basis point interest rate hike, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell welcomed disinflation yesterday, but warned that if we see stronger labour reports, or signs that inflation is creeping back in then “it may well be the case that we have to do ...

* Markets spooked by CNBC interview with Boston Fed President. * Higher inflation leads to more poverty and a wider wealth gap. * Food stamps are really money stamps. * Media campaigns to soften up the public to inflation. * Stimulus postponed the pain for some, but it’s about to ...  Show more

Greg Boutle, BNP Paribas U.S. Head of Equity & Derivative Strategy, says there could be a new volatility regime in 2021. Jeremy Stretch, CIBC Head of G-10 FX Strategy, discusses U.S. Treasury report designating Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators. Michelle Meyer, Bof ...  Show more