South Africa is expected to lower interest rates, after the formal adoption of a 3% inflation target and the government’s display of fiscal discipline provided policymakers with room for easing https://t.co/z2BD6czm9t ...

Welcome to Stocks and Translation, Yahoo Finance's video podcast that cuts through the market mayhem, the noisy numbers, and the hyperbole to give you the information you need to make the right trade for your portfolio. I'm Jared Blicker, your host, and with me is Yahoo Finance's head of news, Miles Odlin, who's here to keep us honest and connect Wall Street with Main Street. Markets are hovering close to records.AI leaders, they look pricey and investors are trying to decide whether we're in a healthy rera ...

Do you think the 2% inflation target should be scrapped. >> I don't think it should be scrapped. I think it should be changed.I have been of the view that a better inflation target is a range, not a point estimate. A point estimate suggests precision that is elusive. Second, that range should be higher than 2%.It should be the two and a half to 3%. What is undeniable is that we are at a stable 3% inflation and that hasn't in any way unanchored inflationary expectations. ...

The rand strengthened below 17 per dollar for the first time since February 2023 after the government adopted a lower inflation target https://t.co/8YWXyzII4e ...

Yeah, interesting comments here from Boston Fed President Susan Collins, who is a voter this year. She's saying it's likely appropriate to keep policy rates at the current level for quote some time. Monetary policy, she says, is mildly restrictive and she wants it there.Talks about financial conditions, usually meaning the stock market, she says they're a tailwind for economic growth and economic activity has been holding up quite well. She says additional monetary support risks slowing or stalling the retu ...

South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is expected to endorse a 3% inflation target this week, aligning fiscal policy with the central bank’s push to anchor prices at that level, according to a survey https://t.co/kWsNYPd1M3 ...

Turkey’s central bank maintains its inflation target for next year in an ambitious move that signals it will keep interest rates high for longer https://t.co/NodewEGmND ...

It would be a lot easier to talk about the economy and what it looks like in the US if we were getting official government out. We know that Friday we were supposed to get that jobs report. Another jobs report delayed.When you take a look at all the different sources that we have alternative measures of data and you try to really string them all together. What is the state of the labor market right now. I would say squishy.Employment growth has been very soft, but obviously there's been a slowdown in supply ...

The quarter-point reduction to 2.25% marks "right level†to contain inflation risks and help the economy adjust to tariff-fueled disruption. ...

Market Trends & Expectations - Swaps traders are reducing bets on Turkish interest-rate cuts for the rest of the year [1] - Increased price growth is casting doubt on the central bank's inflation target [1]