Bond market investors may want to shift their focus toward the front of the yield curve, according to Allspring Global Investments’ Noah Wise. The bottom line: Focus exposure on short-term Treasurys over long duration. Wise, the firm’s head of global macro strategy and a senior portfolio manager, sees the strategy as part of a diversified…
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted to hold its key interest rate steady but not without opposition from three officials who have expressed concern over inflation and wanted to hike. Despite increasing support among some officials for a rate increase, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to leave the federal funds rate…
Lorie Logan, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, during a research conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in Dallas, Texas, US, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. Desiree Rios | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan, asserting that this week’s good inflation news wasn’t…
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – 2025/05/07: General view of the headquarters of the Bank of Korea in central Seoul. The Bank of Korea (BOK) is the central bank of South Korea and the institution that issues the Korean won. It was founded on June 12, 1950 in Seoul. (Photo by Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified Wednesday before the Senate Banking Committee, facing questions over the the economy and how various factors might impact interest rates. Part of congressionally mandated Capitol Hill appearances for the central bank leader, Warsh spoke Tuesday to the House Financial Services Committee. During his remarks, he reaffirmed the Fed’s commitment…
Federal Reserve officials were split last month about the future of interest rates, with policymakers entertaining scenarios in either direction, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. In Kevin Warsh‘s first meeting June 16-17 as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, participants saw outcomes where inflation could ease and allow lower rates, while others envisioned…
Joachim Nagel, President of the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, speaks to members of the Foreign Journalists’ Association on April 23, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Michele Tantussi | Getty Images Inflation is at risk of remaining above target despite the U.S. and Iran agreeing to end their war in the Middle East, a top European central…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks to reporters during his first news conference since taking the helm at the central bank on June 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s first big announced changes point toward a quiet revolution, with task forces set up to rethink virtually…
An employee counts genuine South Korean 50,000 won banknotes in this arranged photograph at the Counterfeit Notes Response Center of KEB Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 14, 2017. The won advanced for the first day in four as top U.S. national security officials sought to damp down talk of am imminent war with North Korea following days…
The yen rose on Monday, helped by comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda who left the door open to a near-term rate hike. Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty Images Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is increasingly finding herself in an unenviable position on the foreign-exchange front. After deploying over 11.7 trillion yen…
