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19 Dec 2024
Response to the ECB rate cut from Roelof Salomons, Chief Investment Strategist at asset manager BlackRock .
• Prospect of further easing in 2025... The ECB cut interest rates by 25 basis points today. A key question for 2025 will be when and w...
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19 Dec 2024
Erik Weisman, head economics at MFS.
The market is fully priced for the Fed to cut rates by 25 basis points this week. And in this respect, the market will not be disappointed. What will be far more interesting is what the new Fed “dots” tell u...
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19 Dec 2024
John J. Hardy, chief macro strategist, and Ole S. Hansen, head of commodity strategy, discuss what’s in store for 2025 – a year that’s already shaping up to become interesting. “Stay flexible. Don’t assume you have the answers. The big questions a...
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19 Dec 2024
Commenting on yesterday’s Federal Reserve decision to cut rates by 25bps, Salman Ahmed, Global Head of Macro & Strategic Asset Allocation at Fidelity International said:
“The Federal Reserve (Fed) cut the Fed Funds Rate by 25 basis points (...
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13 Dec 2024
A landmark US election, new stimulus in China, and growing geopolitical tensions mean the second half of the 2020s will be markedly different from what we’ve seen so far. Growth, inflation, and interest rates across the world’s economies are set t...
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13 Dec 2024
Fourth interest rate cut this year – and it will not be the end
Today's rate cut is the ECB's response to deteriorating economic data, but also to its confidence that inflation will move towards its 2% target. Both are reflected in the projecti...
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