14 April 2023 EUR/USD Recovery Meets Fresh Federal Reserve Headwind 

The Euro to Dollar exchange rate unwound some of its earlier gains in the final session of the week when poor U.S. retail sales figures were followed by remarks from Governor Christopher Waller sug…

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31 March 2023 Pound to Dollar Rate Helped after Fed's Favourite Inflation Gauge Eases

The Pound to Dollar exchange rate pared earlier losses to trade buoyantly near the year's highs ahead of the weekend after the Federal Reserve's (Fed) preferred inflation measure fell further than …

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24 March 2023 U.S. Dollar and Federal Reserve Outlook: Analyst and Economist Views 

  U.S. exchange rates were mostly underwater for the period in the final session of the week after the Federal Reserve (Fed) suggested that its interest might rise by less than was previously…

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22 March 2023 Pound Jumps against Dollar as Markets Smell Federal Reserve Rate Cuts in H2

The Pound, Euro and other major currencies rose against the Dollar in an initial response to the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points.

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14 March 2023 EUR/USD Risk Tilting Higher into ECB Decision after Fed Rate Outlook Revised

The Euro to Dollar exchange rate has bounced sharply from the year's lows in recent trade but the balance of directional risk remains tilted to the upside ahead of Thursday's European Central Bank …

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14 March 2023 U.S. Dollar and Fed Rate Outlook Post Bailouts: Analyst and Economist Views

The high-profile failures of some small U.S. lenders and the resulting federal effort to prevent panic among depositors elsewhere have led financial markets to revise their outlooks for the Federal…

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14 March 2023 Nomura: Federal Reserve to Cut Interest Rates Next Week

Investment bank Nomura is one of the first major investment banks to come out and say the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week in light of recent stresses in the U.S. banking system.

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07 March 2023 Pound to Dollar Rate Hits Jan. Lows as Powell Warns Fed is Far from Done on Interest Rate Hikes

GBP/USD fell to its lowest level since January 06 following comments from the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.

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24 February 2023 U.S. Dollar and the Fed's Top Inflation Gauge: Analyst and Economist Views

January's Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index was potentially an early warning of a nightmare scenario being in the pipeline for policymakers at the Federal Reserve (Fed) …

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23 February 2023 Pound to Dollar Rate Struggles Near 1.20 as BoE and Fed Hawks Cross Paths 

The Pound to Dollar exchange rate came under pressure near 1.20 in the penultimate session of the week as financial markets mulled upside risks to Federal Reserve (Fed) and Bank of England (Fed) in…

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15 February 2023 Brainard's Departure Another Hawkish Development for Federal Reserve

The pending departure of Vice Chair of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Lael Brainard is one further potentially hawkish development in the outlook for Federal Reserve interest rates that c…

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14 February 2023 Euro to Dollar Rate Volatile after Data Leaves Disinflation Process in Doubt 

The Euro to Dollar exchange rate whip-sawed in a volatile response to official figures revealing accelerating price increases for some goods and services that have placed a question mark over how m…

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08 February 2023 Transcript: Fed Chair Powell's Economic Club of Washington Appearance

U.S. Dollar exchange rates were lower with modest losses in many cases by the mid-week milestone after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell's appearance at the Economic Club of Washington p…

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02 February 2023 Transcript: Questions and Answers from Federal Reserve Press Conference 

Chairman Jerome Powell has indicated the Federal Reserve (Fed) is near a "sufficiently restrictive" level of interest rates and that it's cycle of increases may soon be over but this suggestion cam…

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01 February 2023 Dollar Falls against Euro and Pound after Powell Signals the Fed has Completed the Heavy Lifting

The Dollar fell sharply against the Pound, Euro and other major currencies after the Chair of the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy would not require significantly more rate hikes to bring infl…

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20 January 2023 Innovative Measure of U.S. Layoffs Suggests Fed Right to Stay Course

New and innovative research from Goldman Sachs provides a more timely measure of layoffs in the U.S. job market and suggests Federal Reserve (Fed) officials  are right to be dismissing recentl…

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06 January 2023 Who are the Voting Members of the Federal Reserve in 2023?

A look at who the important voices on the Federal Reserve's FOMC will be in 2023.

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14 December 2022 GBP/USD Defies Federal Reserve's 'Hawkish' Message

The Dollar strengthened after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 50 basis points and lifted its projections of where it expects interest rates to settle at the end of the hiking cycle in …

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09 December 2022 Federal Reserve Must Tighten 9% to Break Core Inflation's Back

The Fed will fail to bring core inflation below 3.0% in the current cycle shows new research, paving the way for a successive cycle of rate hikes.

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01 December 2022 Pandemic Market Rally Created "Excess Retirees" and Inflation Risk, Fed Says

Pandemic period gains for stock markets and the resulting windfalls for investors have been cited by Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell for a sharp increase in retirements that is lifting…

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