From canceling Friday night trips to the pub to pushing back soccer practice, global investors are pulling out all the stops to ensure they're ready for the most important gathering of central banker.
NEW YORK: Global stock markets finished mostly higher Friday, though Wall Street was flat following a surprisingly strong jobs report, while the euro was near parity with the dollar as traders bet.
Asian markets rose on Friday on easing recession fears, with optimism boosted by hopes that US President Joe Biden will remove some Trump-era tariffs from Chinese goods.
Equities were also boosted by reports that Beijing was considering a huge stimulus push to the struggling economy by allowing local governments to raise billions of dollars through bond issuance for infrastructure projects.
However, surging inflation, rising interest rates and a fresh flareup of COVID-19 infections in Shanghai continued to keep investor sentiment grounded.
Traders were handed a strong lead from Wall Street, where all three main indices climbed for a fourth straight day, helped by
The yen gained with Treasuries, with the currency rising as much as 0.5% as details filtered through about the shocking attack at a political event in the western city of Nara.