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A Washington state woman has been arrested in connection with a string of alleged arsons that may also include a deadly New Year''s Eve fire, officials said.

Not even a record consumer inflation reading will make today''s ECB meeting any more interesting than one might expect. Don''t get me wrong. The pressure is certainly on for Lagarde & co. to do something. But in trying to phase out PEPP purchases and introduce more bond buying after March, they are pu

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Market sentiment stays sluggish as traders await key central bank verdicts amid reflation fears. While portraying the mood, US government bond yields

The sources said the latest bond switch conducted by the government with the central bank at the end of January was not factored into budget estimates released on Tuesday.

Heres a look at the key bond market deals on Thursday.

An American man accused of ripping off investors via a fake bond scam will remain in prison because of the risk of him fleeing the country as his alleged victims seek $2.8m in compensation.

Both markets and environmentalists have been a thumbs-up to the Budget 2022 proposal to issue Sovereign Green Bonds. What are these bonds, and why are they called green?

Over the last decade, late-stage and crossover funds have faced sharper elbows from a wider number of non-traditional market participants that write checks to maturing but still-private companies. A lot of these firms have done well as their portfolio companies begin to to trade publicly or get acquired. Still, it’s harder every year to stand […]

Over the last decade, late-stage and crossover funds have faced sharper elbows from a wider number of non-traditional market participants that write checks to maturing but still-private companies. A lot of these firms have done well as their portfolio companies begin to to trade publicly or get acquired. Still, it’s harder every year to stand […]

Markets Have Seen This Movie Before (Spoiler Alert: The Ending Is Horrible) Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, As I expected, the Fed didnt raise rates this week at its January FOMC meeting. If you were thinking the Fed would have to begin raising rates to counteract inflation, youre probably going to have to wait until March, when the Feds Open Market Committee meets again. The Fed says it will soon be appropriate to raise rates. It also says it will end asset purchases in March, so all signs point to a March rate hike. How did the stock market react to this week''s messaging from the Fed? [ZH: The initial reaction was a puke across all major US equity markets followed by the ubiquitous overnight ramp to erase the loss. Thursday saw more selling at the open which extended into the US cash open on Friday.] {ZH: At which point, a buying panic ensued, lifting The Dow and S&P back into the green post-FOMC, Nasdaq down modestly, but Small Caps crushed.] The All-Important 10-Year Treasury Yields on the all-important 10-year Treasury note spiked to 1.876% on Wednesday - a 10bps surge.

After its first policy meeting in 2022, the US Federal Reserve said it is likely to hike interest rates in March, for the first time in more than three years and confirmed plans to end its bond purchases, introduced during the coronavirus pandemic, in the Feds battle to control surging inflation.

Oaktree Threatens Rift With China After Seizing Evergrande''s Prized "Versailles" Plot, Derailing Massive Restructuring Plan While the collapse and default of Evergrande was 2021''s business, the subsequent restructuring - and its potentially absurd fallout - will be with us for a long time. Take the fluid restructuring plan of China''s most indebted property developer: according to Bloomberg , Chinese authorities are considering a proposal to dismantle China Evergrande Group by selling the bulk of its assets. The restructuring proposal, which was submitted to Beijing by officials in Evergrandes home province of Guangdong, calls for the developer to sell most assets except for its separately listed property management and electric vehicle units. A group led by China Cinda Asset Management, a state-owned bad debt manager and major Evergrande creditor, would take over any unsold property assets, the Bloomberg sources said. If approved by Beijing, the plan - which we previewed several weeks ago - would mark the biggest step yet by China''s government to prevent a disorderly collapse of the worlds most indebted developer from roiling Chinas financial markets and economy before the closely watched Communist Party leadership transition later this year.

Peter Schiff: "We''re Screwed & The Fed Knows It" Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve wrapped up its first Federal Open Market Committee meeting of the year this week without any real surprises. Despite everybody screaming about an inflation problem, the Fed will keep its loose, inflationary monetary policy in play for at least two more months. Interest rates remain locked at zero. But the FOMC said it will likely raise rates soon. With inflation well above 2 percent and a strong labor market, the Committee expects it will soon be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate. Most analysts expect soon to be at the March meeting. But Jerome Powell left some wiggle-room in the trajectory of the Feds monetary policy, saying, At this time, we havent made any decisions about the path of policy. I stress again that well be humble and nimble. Powell also indicated that the Fed would be data-dependent. As Peter Schiff said in his podcast, If the Federal Reserve was depending on the data, they would have raised interest rates a long time ago, and they would now be much higher than zero. Its important to reiterate that despite the inflation freight train , the Fed left interest rates at zero.