A broad stock market rally was the hallmark of last week’s trading action. The Federal Reserve signaled a pause on interest rate hikes and three possible rate…
The Federal Reserve decided to forgo an interest rate hike amid reports showing inflation is cooling and signaled that it will cut rates faster than previously anticipated next year.
With the Fed pausing hike in interest rates in November and US inflation slowing down from 3.7% to 3.2% and core CPI falling to 4%; the US 10-year interest rates fell almost 50 bps to 4.4% and Barclays Agg. Bond Index moved up 4%. This led to Euphoria in the Global Equity markets; NASDAQ moving up 9%, MSCI EM up 6% and MSCI World up 7%, outperforming MSCI India which was up only 2%.
Spot gold was steady at $1,980.20 per ounce by 2:45pm ET (1945 GMT) after rising to a two-week high earlier in the session. Prices were up about 2.2 percent so far this week.
New reports indicate that inflation meaningfully declined last month, a development that investors are interpreting to mean that the Federal Reserve is likely done with raising interest rates and may start cutting them before long.