Dec 16, 2024 | Markets
Lull in sovereign debt defaults may end as maturity wall looms Developing nations grapple with $850 billion of interest costs Developing nations, already set for a turbulent 2025, are having to cope with ballooning interest payments on $29 trillion of debt that built...
Dec 16, 2024 | Markets
Morgan Stanley sees dollar below current levels by Dec. 2025 Valuation is ‘stomach churning,’ Societe Generale says Wall Street is starting to sour on the dollar as President-elect Donald Trump’s policies and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts will likely put...
Dec 13, 2024 | Markets
Bitcoin, meme tokens, speculative stocks continue to surge Momentum elsewhere recedes as S&P 500 edges lower on week A five-day runup in Treasury yields finally tamped down the post-election fervor in big US stocks this week. Not so at the market’s speculative...
Dec 10, 2024 | Markets
USDA cuts import forecast for 2024/25 season by around 13% Purchases likely to be less than half of levels in 2020/21 China’s corn imports are expected to total just 14 million tons in the current season, less than half of their peak during a buying spree a few years...
Dec 10, 2024 | Markets
NFIB’s November index jumps 8 points, the most on record Business conditions outlook surges to more than four-year high US small-business optimism surged in November to a more than three-year high in anticipation of more favorable economic policies after Donald Trump...
