1st September 2022

  • Fed’s Mester Backs Rates Above 4% Early Next Year, No 2023 Cuts

Official sees unemployment rate rising above 4% this year

She forecasts inflation moving to 5% to 6% by year end

https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/RHHDUJDWX2PS

  • Oil Retreats as Demand Concerns Escalate, Dollar Pushes Higher

China to lock down megacity Chengdu as Covid Zero rolls on

US currency rises toward record high as Fed battles inflation

https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/RHIKWET1UM0X

  • Losses Mount for Global Bonds as Hawkish Fed Message Intensifies

Fed’s Mester adds to pushback against 2023 rate cut bets

Two-year Treasuries at highest since 2007, Asia bonds drop

https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/RHIA9XDWRGG1

  • The Fed Is About to Go Full Throttle on QT. Fear Not: Kevin Muir

Quantitative easing clearly boosted financial assets. But it would be a mistake to think that $95 billion of quantitative tightening every month would have the opposite effect.

https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/RHH2CRDWLU69

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