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...The short-term swings on Friday showed the markets were in an “agitated” state, said Viktor Katona, head of oil analysis at Kpler, an energy data and research company....
...The UK’s blue-chip index, which was up 0.7 per cent, trading as high as 8015.63 points, above its previous record closing high of 8014.31 in February 2023, but short of its all-time intraday high of 8047.06...
...The UK’s blue-chip index was last up 1.3 per cent at 8023.46, above the record closing high of 8014.31 it hit in February 2023 but short of its all-time intraday high of 8047.06, also notched last February...
...When Stephanie Cohen joined Goldman Sachs right out of college 25 years ago, even her fellow analysts could tell the fast-talking Chicago native was going to go far....
...Waller said moving the Fed’s holdings towards a larger share of short-term Treasuries “would shift the maturity structure more towards our policy rate”....
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 was hovering close to flat at 491.7 — just short of the intraday record of 495.5 notched in January 2022....
...Despite its recent gains, the pound remains well short of its post-pandemic high of $1.42 struck in June 2021....
...The company’s stock price has tumbled 12.3 per cent since the beginning of the year after the company’s revenue forecast for the first quarter of the year fell short of Wall Street’s estimates by as much...
...FX strategists at JPMorgan, another big foreign exchange trading bank, said that in futures markets, short positions on the dollar had now “neutralised”....
...“They’re probably going to shrink in the short-term but they aren’t going to fall off a cliff.” Stephanie Stacey...
...Intel shares tumbled almost 12 per cent after the company on Thursday forecast that its earnings would fall short of analysts’ expectations for the current quarter....
...have also recently ramped up efforts to boost market confidence, with the so-called “national team” of state-affiliated financial institutions pouring money into the market, and tightened restrictions on short...
...London’s FTSE 100 added 1.3 per cent, while France’s CAC 40 rose 0.6 per cent, falling just short of an all-time closing high....
...We’re short millions of units of housing....
...Yields on short and long-dated UK government debt fell on Friday, after British retail sales dropped sharply and unexpectedly in October....
...French and German stocks fell short of setting new closing peaks, as data showing a marginal decline in US inflation dragged those European benchmarks back from record intraday highs....
...“Short of another major shock we have reached a peak” in interest rates, she said. “But we have to stay restrictive for as long as necessary” to ensure inflation keeps falling....
...Short and long-dated US Treasuries had a muted reaction after Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell delivered opening remarks at a conference in Washington, where he made no comment on the outlook for interest...
...The recent rally has also been fuelled by an unwinding of “extreme” short positioning — bets on lower prices — and the Bank of Israel’s willingness to use reserves to offset excessive currency weakness....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell to below $84 a barrel, short of a level previously hit before Hamas’s incursion into southern Israel....
...At its last meeting, the central bank held short-term interest rates at minus 0.1 per cent, maintaining its decades-long ultra-loose monetary policy....
...Yields on short and long-dated UK government bonds rose on Thursday, after the Bank of England’s chief economist said monetary policy would have to stay restrictive....
...“There’s not much point in being short the yen [betting on a falling price] as every Bank of Japan policy meeting will be a live event,” he said....
...Oil prices had already fallen sharply on Friday after a speech by Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah, stopped short of calling for an escalation of the conflict....
...Additional reporting by Stephanie Stacey...
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