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Rosengren said he’s not concerned about an immediate jump in prices that is expected to occur as the COVID-19 pandemic eases

The MSCI world index falls 0.1% after 10 positive sessions

Read more about US: Fed policymakers see rebound ahead, even if no Covid herd immunity on Business Standard. Analysts have long predicted economic activity will pick up as more people are vaccinated, but hopes for a quick path to a fully immunized populace have faded amid vaccine shortages

Read more about Commodities outlook & trading strategies by Bhavik Patel of Tradebulls Sec on Business Standard. If silver can break above the $26 level, then it is likely that the market goes looking towards the $27.50 level, and then eventually the $28 level

Markets are convinced: The Fed won’t come for the punch bowl Premium (REUTERS) Jon Sindreu , The Wall Street Journal The Treasury selloff is about inflation expectations, not higher ‘real’ yields. Investors may need to adjust their old playbooks Share Via Read Full Story The Treasury selloff is about inflation expectations, not higher ‘real’ yields. Investors may need to adjust their old playbooks. Global investors have seized on the idea that the Federal Reserve will keep interest r...

The devastation wrought by Covid-19 on the real economy hasn’t stopped stock and property markets reaching new highs. Despite the Fed’s best efforts, such asset bubbles cannot be sustained. Could US political instability deflate the bubbles?

Just as monetary policy lets rising crude prices filter through the system, instead of trying to stamp them out, monetary policy should allow rising prices of steel, copper, coal, iron ore, etc, filter through the production process and produce appropriate responses of raising output, increasing the production of close substitutes, increasing efficiency. Any temptation to raise policy rates and choke off the price rise of these raw materials should be resisted.

Read more about No high inflation or fiscal crisis in the US but … on Business Standard. Monetary base issued by the Fed had jumped from less than $1 trn before the GFC to more than $3 trn by early 2020 and then to about $5 trn by end of the year. But inflation has hardly gone up. Why?