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The FTSE 100 rose 1.3% to 7,648.98 points on the back of the U.S. Federal Reserves pivot toward rate cuts last night, and despite of push-back on following a similar rate cut outlook from the Bank...

After a decade of low rates, people are seeing higher interest rates on savings accounts, money market funds and certificates of deposit.

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The technicals are lining up for another potential leg lower in the dollar

S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq indices fell before Fridays monthly jobs data. If strong, the Fed may stay aggressive with rate hikes. Treasury yields spiked.

The gold price has shot higher on a hint of dovishness in today's interest rate decision by the Federal Open Market committee. The vote was unanimous

Last week offered up decent bookends for a narrow, short-term range.  A series of downbeat economic reports set the low yields last Monday.  Then Fed speakers and strong data pushed back in the other direction.  The breadth of the range was finally realized on Friday after the jobs report.  Since then, not only would it be within the bond market's playbook to consolidate ahead of a key data report (Wednesday's CPI), that&#39...

Share this US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell’s comments last night, that the Fed was focused on its dual mandate of unemployment and inflation, and that the central bank was a long way from meeting either, would under normal circumstances have been enough to assuage market concerns about a premature tightening of policy. By not specifically referencing or expressing concern over the recent move higher in longer-term US yields, and looking to hold the markets hand, it was perhaps not surpris...