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Fed's Interest Rate Cut Process on Weak Employment Data

8 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

Global markets have been focused on a critical question for weeks: "When will the Fed cut interest rates?" The Fed's highly anticipated meeting will be announced on September 17th. Another key piece of data during the interest rate cut process is the...

Japan's Interest Rate Decision and Its Impact on Global Markets

4 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The Bank of Japan's interest rate hike decisions may have significant effects on the global economy. We can say that Japan is a major economy that has been following an ultra-loose monetary policy for many years. Japan, which has been implementing ne...

The Fed's Dot Plot... 🤷🏼‍♂️Meh

23 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx

The recent news about San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly being comfortable with the Federal Reserve’s plan for two interest rate cuts this year has Wall Street buzzing, but in the world of crypto, the reaction is a lot less dramatic. While traditi...

Federal Reserve, The Balance Sheet Illusionist

19 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Myxoplixx

How often have Fed chairs painted pictures of economic tranquility, only for financial storms to follow? In the past several decades, anytime the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points or more, historically, what wasn't said was, "thi...

FED Cuts Rate by 50 Points, Says No Recession

19 Sep 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The FED made a 50 basis point cut yesterday as I predicted. In fact, even calling it a prediction is wrong. The FED had already given many clues about it. Despite this, many people still believed in 25 basis points. Yesterday, I learned that 105 out...

Crypto's Not So Secret Weapon: The U.S. Economy

4 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Bfab

I initially thought crypto was this invincible force, untouched by the ups and downs of the 'real' world? Turns out, it's not so different from those tech stocks we all love to obsess over – exciting, volatile, and definitely not immune to a bit of e...

Morning JAVA: Bank Of Canada Lowers Key Lending Rates Again!

26 Jul 2024 3 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara

    On Wednesday, the Bank Of Canada lowered its key lending rates by 25 basis points or a quarter of one percent, for the second month in a row. This brings the BoC's key lending rate down to 4.5%. It's now clear the bank is shifting its focus of f...

Morning JAVA: Bank Of Canada + ECB First Of G7 To Cut Rates

6 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

I've been so busy around the house lately that I neglected my blog for a whole month. Central Banker news in the last 24 hours though, was something I just had to pass on to my readers. It's so important to keep track of their shenanigans as it affe...

Gold Closed At Record High On March 1

3 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Although it was reported in the media, there was little fanfare to the fact that gold closed at a record weekly high on Friday, March 1, 2024 at spot $2,082 while April futures also closed at a record high of $2,095. On February 1, gold peaked at $2...

FED Holds Rates For Third Consecutive Month

13 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

This afternoon, the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve concluded its last F.O.M.C. meeting of the year. It's usually at this time when we find out what their plans are, basically. Key lending rates will stay the same as they have been before the...