Yields on U.S. Treasury securities ticked higher following the minutes, with returns on the 10-year note climbing to 2.6%." Asia bond curves have steepened dramatically, compared with the United States.... Indonesia's benchmark bonds rose to 6. 787%. Meanwhile, worries about rising COVID-19 cases in China also persisted.... Shanghai, under a city-wide lockdown, reported over 19, 000 new cases on April 6, although a vast majority was asymptomatic. China's stocks fell over 1%....

“ We are keeping inflation low.” His comments come a week before the central bank’s monetary policy

Now the question becomes, is what we should be looking at as a potential break the equity market?... Louis Fed president James Bullard also said that the U.S. economy is likely to continue growing at an above-trend pace for at least the next 18 months, and households are likely to continue spending as the influence of the pandemic fades.... Read full storyU.S. business inventories also increased slightly more than expected in March, lifted by a jump in motor vehicle stocks, government data sho

and near a five-year high against the yen as a hawkish tilt by Federal Reserve policymakers, buoyed

world’s biggest developed markets, pressuring policy makers who want to slow inflation without crash

Federal Reserve about how hot it is willing to let inflation run before it begins unwinding pandemic-era

tone in explaining the euro-area monetary policy outlook and more hawkish comments attributed to some

BENGALURU: Gold prices edged up on Thursday as the dollar eased, although hawkish comments by U.S

In addition, the Fed is expected to begin reducing its asset holdings in a step that will further tighten credit conditions for businesses and households.... " It is going to be very challenging."" Powell is intimating that avoiding a recession will not be easy.... We are going to be raising rates."-Reuters....

, but will adopt a far more hawkish tone as the recent rise in food prices risks becoming entrenched