
Analysis: Shaken but not stirred: bond markets may weather hawkish Fed for now
A hawkish shift at the U.S. Federal Reserve has ended a weeks-long rally in bond markets, but don’t bet on a repeat of the sharp selloff seen earlier this year just yet.

A hawkish shift at the U.S. Federal Reserve has ended a weeks-long rally in bond markets, but don’t bet on a repeat of the sharp selloff seen earlier this year just yet.

LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) – Ten banks have been excluded over past breaches of antitrust rules from European Union syndicated debt sales backing Brussels’ up to 800 billion euro ($969 billion) COVID-19 recovery fund.

A sharp spike in energy prices and more expensive services boosted euro zone consumer inflation in May as expected, data confirmed on Thursday, taking the rate of price growth just above the European Central Banks target.

Asian equities fell to a three-week low on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve stunned investors by signalling it might raise interest rates at a much faster pace than assumed, sending bond yields and the dollar sharply higher.

Pan-European financial markets operator Euronext (ENX.PA) said on Thursday that it had resolved the technical glitches which knocked out index derivatives trading for nearly four hours earlier in the day.

Premier Inn-owner Whitbread (WTB.L) said hotel bookings in its tourist locations picked up in the run-up to the summer season, lifting its shares even as Britain delayed plans to ease pandemic restrictions.

Lebanon is grappling with a deep economic crisis after successive governments piled up debt following the 1975-1990 civil war with little to show for their spending binge.

The prices of so-called meme stocks may be distorted because the majority of trades in those names are executed away from public exchanges where share price formation occurs, the head of the New York Stock Exchange said on Wednesday.

Long bets on most of Asia’s emerging currencies were trimmed, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, as investors weigh the prospect of tighter monetary settings as the U.S. recovery outperforms, while the COVID-19 situation locally is brought under control.

MANILA, June 17 (Reuters) – The parent company of Philippine Airlines’ (PHL.UL) booked a record 73 billion pesos ($1.51 billion) loss in 2020, up seven fold from a year earlier, after the COVID-19 pandemic lashed the global aviation sector.

A hawkish shift at the U.S. Federal Reserve has ended a weeks-long rally in bond markets, but don’t bet on a repeat of the sharp selloff seen earlier this year just yet.

LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) – Ten banks have been excluded over past breaches of antitrust rules from European Union syndicated debt sales backing Brussels’ up to 800 billion euro ($969 billion) COVID-19 recovery fund.

A sharp spike in energy prices and more expensive services boosted euro zone consumer inflation in May as expected, data confirmed on Thursday, taking the rate of price growth just above the European Central Banks target.

Asian equities fell to a three-week low on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve stunned investors by signalling it might raise interest rates at a much faster pace than assumed, sending bond yields and the dollar sharply higher.

Pan-European financial markets operator Euronext (ENX.PA) said on Thursday that it had resolved the technical glitches which knocked out index derivatives trading for nearly four hours earlier in the day.

Premier Inn-owner Whitbread (WTB.L) said hotel bookings in its tourist locations picked up in the run-up to the summer season, lifting its shares even as Britain delayed plans to ease pandemic restrictions.

Lebanon is grappling with a deep economic crisis after successive governments piled up debt following the 1975-1990 civil war with little to show for their spending binge.

The prices of so-called meme stocks may be distorted because the majority of trades in those names are executed away from public exchanges where share price formation occurs, the head of the New York Stock Exchange said on Wednesday.

Long bets on most of Asia’s emerging currencies were trimmed, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, as investors weigh the prospect of tighter monetary settings as the U.S. recovery outperforms, while the COVID-19 situation locally is brought under control.

MANILA, June 17 (Reuters) – The parent company of Philippine Airlines’ (PHL.UL) booked a record 73 billion pesos ($1.51 billion) loss in 2020, up seven fold from a year earlier, after the COVID-19 pandemic lashed the global aviation sector.
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