Federal Reserve
Trump, Bitcoin and China: The booms and busts awaiting the ASX in 2025
Australia’s market analysts have forecast steady growth for the domestic sharemarket in 2025, despite looming uncertainties hanging over the next 12 months.
- by Daniel Lo Surdo
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Opinion
Interest rates
The Trump shadow hanging over Wall Street’s meltdown
A big change in the Federal Reserve’s thinking triggered a bloodbath on Wall Street that has spread around the world.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Updated
World markets
Fed cuts rates but Wall Street rattled by change to 2025 outlook
Wall Street sank as the US Federal Reserve says it expects to see fewer rate cuts next year than previously projected.
- by Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir
Opinion
Interest rates
Trump set to put an old foe in an uncomfortable position
Donald Trump’s controversial policies set him up for an inevitable clash with old sparring partner Jerome Powell.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Regulation
Could Trump spark another financial crisis?
Some of Wall Street’s most powerful people are still celebrating the president-elect’s victory, but they should be wary.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Trump’s Machiavellian plot to undermine the man he would love to get rid of
Jerome Powell says he will not resign as chairman of the US Federal Reserve should the president-elect ask him to. Trump’s advisers are working on a Plan B.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Updated
US Votes 2024
‘Not permitted under the law’: Powell shuts down Trump questions as Fed cuts rates
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point while chair Jerome Powell addressed concerns about his future when Donald Trump returns to the White House.
- by Christopher Rugaber
Opinion
World markets
Trump sent markets soaring but there was one danger sign
Amid the near-euphoria in financial markets that erupted when it became clear that Donald Trump had regained the US presidency, there was one warning sign.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Inside China
Tight US election casts a shadow over China’s economic planning
Xi’s key policymakers are meeting to discuss a large fiscal stimulus package, knowing that the US election outcome could have threatening implications.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Knife’s edge: How the US election result will change the world
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have two radically different sets of policies that will have great consequence not just for Americans, but for the rest of the world.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Bulls N' Bears
Is the tide about to turn for small caps?
The world’s central banks have kickstarted what looks to be an aggressive series of rate cuts and for smalls caps, this just might be the turning point.
- by Bill McConnell
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