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Wall St Week Ahead Fed's internal split puts spotlight on Powell's rate guidance, dissents ReutersJumped the gun, says Morgan Stanley; reverses Dec Fed rate call to 25bps cut ReutersThe Fed's new policy framework is about to be tested The HillEven If Fed Cuts Rates Again, US Economy May Not Get Much of a Boost Bloomberg.com
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Any hints of Fed plans for asset purchases could aid the rally in stocks and other risk assets more than a rate cut
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The delayed core personal consumption expenditures price index for September was expected to show a 2.9% annual increase.
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The rate of U.S. inflation stayed stuck close to 3% before the government shutdown, a long delayed report showed, adding a final piece of the puzzle before the Federal Reserve votes on whether to cut interest rates again.
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Rising Japanese bond yields, coupled with the expectation that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates again later this month for the first time since January, has breathed new life into a Wall Street boogeyman.
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Wednesday's selling carried into Thursday as investors continued to take a risk-off approach to markets following the Federal Reserve's latest policy announcement.
The central bank issued its third jumbo-sized rate increase yesterday and set expectations that it will continue to hike rates over its next few meetings. However, the Fed is not alone in its aggressive stance. Several global central banks have increased their benchmark rates this week in an ongoing effort to tame inflation, including the Bank of England and Switzerland's National Bank, which earlier today issued 50 basis point and 75 basis point rate hikes, respectively. (A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.)
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"Global equities are struggling as the world anticipates surging rates will trigger a much sooner and possibly severe global recession," says Edward Moya, senior market strategist at currency data provider OANDA. "Most of these rate hikes around the world are not done yet which means the race to restrictive territory won't be over until closer to the end of the year."
The reaction here at home was a selloff in bond prices, which sent yields on government notes spiking. The 10-year Treasury yield surged 19.2 basis points to 3.704% - its highest level since early 2011 - while the 2-year Treasury yield spiked 12.1 basis points to 4.116%, its loftiest perch since late 2007.
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