Bonds/Interest Rates

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

Kathleen Brooks of FOREX.com discusses Fed rate rise anticipation in the wake of th release of the July FOMC minutes.

The usual suspects did not appear last night to support Wall Street as technical levels were again breached on global growth concerns. Dow down 368. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

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Kathleen Brooks of FOREX.com warns those assuming the US dollar must rally once the Fed starts hiking rates might be disappointed.

The Fed minutes neither confirmed nor denied a rate hike in September, so Wall Street went on a wild ride. Dow down 162. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

Most global stock markets shrugged off a 6% fall in the Shanghai index yesterday, but commodity markets didn’t. Dow down 33. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

The S&P500 is back at 2100, which it first reached in January. Dow up 67. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

Global markets are still trying to come to terms with the Chinese devaluation, while oil has slipped to a new six-year low. Dow up 5. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)