Warsh Shift Points to an ‘Insurance’ Fed Hike

Fed chairman Kevin Warsh used his speech in Wyoming to lay out a firmer, more hawkish case on inflation than markets had heard from him before. The shift now puts more distance between where US rates might be headed and…

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Why is the Japanese yen rallying today?

The Japanese Yen (JPY) loses some strength early Friday after rallying in the American session on Thursday, possibly fuelled by a foreign exchange market intervention by Japanese authorities. Later in the session, preli…

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There Are ’Warsh’ Things I Could Do

WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is a rough transcript of the responses of the new Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, to reporters’ questions in his first post-Federal Open Market Committee news conference Wednesd…

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Is France Becoming Another Fiscal Flashpoint?

France’s mounting debt has become a flashpoint in economic debates, with critics blaming decades of high public spending and subsidies for the country’s burden. The numbers underline how France’s trajectory has diverged…

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