The Federal Reserve’s preferred price metric and a snapshot of consumer demand are seen corroborating both the central bank’s aggressive interest-rate cut and Chair Jerome Powell’s view that the economy remains strong.Economists see the personal consumption expenditures price index rising just 0.1% in August for the second time in three months. The inflation gauge probably … Read more
ED Yardeni of Yardeni Research, Inc, says the Nvidia-led tech selloff in the US was not due to slowdown fears but rather news about an impending monopoly probe against the AI powerhouse. Yardeni doesn’t think the economy is slowing. He says, it is just normalising and coming back to the pre-pandemic normal. The unemployment rate … Read more
Arnab Das, Global Macro Strategist, Invesco EMEA, says an industrial revolution is taking place within which AI has a very important role, That is going to continue. There is possibly a significant amount of hype, and maybe some over-hyping around it. Nevertheless, it is an important change. It is, eventually going to increase productivity and … Read more
Marc Faber, Author, The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, says, everything is in a bubble. On Monday, they sold a t-shirt of the famous US baseball player Babe Ruth, for $24.1 million. It is grossly inflated. The most inflated are the FAANG stocks in the US, the so-called Magnificent Seven. The Magnificent Seven stocks have … Read more
“I do not think that is the only thing that is going on. Though, I think what has happened here is the market was extremely buoyant and arguably priced for something approaching perfection when it got a bit of a wake-up call that the economy was slowing down from last Friday’s non-farm payrolls number in … Read more
“So, we will have to wait and watch, but as things stand today, the commodity prices are under pressure, metal prices are under pressure, and we will have to wait and watch what happens. Again, I will repeat, it will to a great extent depend on what happens in China,” says Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, … Read more
Peter Cardillo of Spartan Capital Securities LLC, says there is a very good possibility that with the weakness coming out of the Chinese economy, which will eventually hurt the global economy, we might get a surprise move by the Fed in September by half a percent rather than a quarter of a percent. And I … Read more
Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist, Axis Bank & Head of Global Research, Axis Capital, says there is a big gap between demand and supply and if we can get urban infrastructure investment to accelerate in the next five years, then potentially we can do a 7.5-8% growth. That is an area where if we invest, it … Read more
“On the other side, the liquidity flow from the domestics continues relentlessly and we are amongst the few markets where the broader markets are doing so well,” says Mihir Vora, CIO, Trust MF.At 24,000 odd, a lot of investors who have made very handsome gains in their portfolios, trading books, as well as running their … Read more
“I would say most of the forecast will be retained. A lot of focus will be on the upcoming budget and the policy henceforth rather than expecting really meaningful on Friday’s policy,” says Tanvee Gupta Jain, Chief India Economist, UBS Securities India.Well, a rate cut or a rate action clearly is not on the cards, … Read more
