POWELL SAYS FED WILL FIX INFLATION
Asia Pacific stocks were up on Friday morning. The Shanghai Composite is up 0.91% at 3,082.79. Overall, the Singapore MSCI is up 2.17% at 289.05. Over in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index is up 2.78% at 19,765. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 is up 2.41% at 26,390.00, while the Topix index is up 1.75% at 1862.00. South Korea’s Kospi is up 2.12% at 2604.24. Australia S&P/ASX 200 up 1.93% at 7075.10.
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Calling stable prices, the “bedrock” of the economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday the U.S. central bank’s battle to control inflation would “include some pain” as the impact of higher interest rates is felt, but that the worse outcome would be for prices to continue speeding ahead.
After using aggressive monetary policy to support the economy through the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fed approved a quarter-percentage-point rate increase in March, but some analysts believe policymakers have fallen too far behind to curb price increases without the sort of sharp rate hikes that might cause a recession.
MARKET SUMMARY AS PER 12/05/2022:
European equities Thursday closing. The DAX futures contract in Germany traded down 0.64% at 13,739.64, CAC 40 futures up 0.77% at 6253.98 and the UK 100 futures contract in the U.K. up 0.81% at 7,291.69.
In the U.S. on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.33% at 31730.31. The S&P 500 down 0.13% at 3930.09 and the Nasdaq 100 down 0.18% at 11945.50, NYSE closes up 0.19% at 14931.09.
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