Castastrophy averted as the U.S. senate vote to pass debt deal. Was there any real doubt a deal would be made? The U.S. Congress has approved a deal to lift the country’s borrowing limit, just days before the world’s largest economy was due to default on its debt. Vote 63-36Read More →
Deutsche Bank’s U.S. listed shares fell 10% in pre-market trading. European stocks came under pro-longed pressure Friday morning as banking sector woes fail to disperse. The DAX and FTSE 100 indices each fall by more than 2% in early morning trade. Central Banks Investors have been assessing the global centralRead More →
No UK recession in 2023 The UK is expected to avoid a technical recession in 2023, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. But the economy is still expected to shrink by 0.2%. The most common definition of recession is that of a ‘technical recession’ in which there have been twoRead More →
Come deposit with us… Silicon Valley Bank is reportedly now marketing itself as the, ‘single safest place to keep or transfer your deposits.’ The new CEO is reported to have said, ‘There is no safer place in the U.S. banking system to put your deposits.’ WOW! That didn’t take longRead More →
Will the recent high profile bank failures spread to other smaller banks? The current meltdown in the banking sector has released fearful memories from the 2008 financial crisis to re-surface. In that major crisis, some of the biggest banks in U.S. collapsed, damaged by the discovery of sub-prime lending practicesRead More →
Failure and Frailties exposed in the banking sector After the failure of U.S. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and with the frailties exposed at Credit Suisse, other U.S. regional banks came under extended pressure yesterday. But these banks of critical concern were swiftly dealt a financial lifeline bringing themRead More →
European Central Bank increases interest rate The European Central Bank (ECB) announced a further rate increase of 50 basis points, despite the current backdrop of market turmoil in the banking sector. The ECB had previously signalled it would be raising rates again at its March meeting – and it did! Pressure InitialRead More →
In view of the recent ‘mini banking crisis’ – will the Feds fight with inflation mean U.S. interest rates will still go up this month? Two or three more increases of 0.25%? Markets still expect the Fed to keep up its inflation fight, despite recent bank failures that have unexpectedlyRead More →
Shifting Rate Expectations Traders and investors alike are rapidly shifting their expectations over the Federal Reserve’s next move amid the crisis of confidence sweeping U.S. banks. Market pricing appears to be suggesting a significant chance the central bank will not make a change to interest rates in March 2023. RateRead More →
The Collapse of the 16th Largest U.S. Bank Silicon Valley Bank – (SVB), the 16th largest bank in the U.S. (at the start of last week) – had been operational for 40 years and was considered a reliable source of funding for tech start-ups. SVB Financial Group’s holdings were hitRead More →