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Rising global trade risks, overall policy uncertainty and the sustainability of US debt topped the list of latent risks to the US financial system, according to the Federal Reserve's latest financial stability report released on Friday. It is the first time the Fed has conducted a semi-annual survey of financial risks since Mr. Trump returned to the White House. Seventy-three per cent of respondents said global trade risks were their top concern, more than double the number reported in November....
Rising global trade risks, overall policy uncertainty and the sustainability of US debt topped the list of latent risks to the US financial system, according to the Federal Reserve's latest financial stability report released on Friday. It is the first time the Fed has conducted a semi-annual survey of financial risks since Mr. Trump returned to the White House. Seventy-three per cent of respondents said global trade risks were their top concern, the highest proportion since November.
Steven Englander, strategist at Standard Chartered in New York, said that if US President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to fire Federal Reserve chairperson Jerome Powell, it would cause inflation to rise, weaken the dollar and prompt money to flock to the euro, yen and Swiss franc. "Attempting to remove (or precipitate) Powell could lead to a significant increase in real risk premiums across inflation, the Treasury yield curve and other dollar asset markets," he said on April 2.
On April 21, according to The Block, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, proposed on the Ethereum Magicians forum on April 20 to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the open-source Instruction Set Architecture architecture RISC-V to improve the efficiency of the execution layer. Buterin pointed out that this move can improve the efficiency of zero-knowledge proofs by up to 100 times, while maintaining two-way compatibility with existing EVM contracts. The proposal aims to addres...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed replacing the contract language of the current Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with a RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture to improve the speed and efficiency of the execution layer of the Ethereum network. Buterin outlined several long-term bottlenecks to Ethereum network scaling in his April 20 proposal, including stable data availability sampling, ensuring block production remains competitive, and zero-knowledge EVM proofs. Buterin believes that ...
According to a report in the Guardian, the US government's chaotic tariff policy is harming the interests of American agricultural producers, and a large number of American agricultural producers may face financial bankruptcy in the future. According to the American Federation of Farm Associations, the number of farm bankruptcies in the United States rose by 55% year-on-year in 2024, while the cash flow of many farms has been deteriorating in recent years. National Public Radio recently reporte...
The TD Cowen Washington research group, led by Jarrett Seeberg, wrote in a report that political risk in the crypto industry is on the rise because of the political backlash associated with U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration.
After successfully promoting GameStop to allocate bitcoin, Matt Cole, CEO of asset management company Strive, recently issued an open letter to Intuit management, alleging that its Mailchimp platform violated its fiduciary duty by banning bitcoin community accounts, and suggested that the company include bitcoin on its balance sheet to cope with the impact of AI technology. In a letter to Intuit's CEO and board of directors, Cole disclosed that Mailchimp had recently shut down the University of ...
IMF Managing Director Georgieva: U.S. tariffs pose a significant risk to the global outlook. It is important to avoid measures that could further damage the world economy.
Gold Ten Futures, April 3, the recent uncertainties affecting the operation of the market, the price of precious metals continued to fluctuate sharply, and market risks intensified. As the holidays approach, members are invited to raise their awareness of risk prevention, continue to make detailed risk emergency plans, maintain the smooth operation of the market, and remind investors to do a good job in risk prevention, reasonably control positions, and invest rationally.
On March 14th, from March 10th to 11th, the People's Bank of China held the 2025 Credit Market Work Conference. The meeting called for taking the lead in the implementation of the "Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Doing a Good Job in Finance", focusing on improving the financing availability of major strategies, key areas and weak links, and enhancing the adaptation of supply and demand of financial products and services. Solidly do a good job in science and technol...
1. Central Bank: Proceed in an orderly manner to resolve the risk of financial debt of financing platforms, and support local governments to solidly promote the market-oriented transformation of financing platforms. 2. General Administration of Financial Supervision and Administration: Study the establishment of "ultra-long-term government bonds + ultra-long-term loans" service model to efficiently support the "two-fold" construction. 3. Preliminary "holding" negative feedback from the bond mark...
El-Erian pointed out that the current environment has undergone fundamental changes. If the Federal Reserve continues to insist, political and economic risks will follow... Click to view...
Hussain Mehdi, macro and investment strategist at HSBC Asset Management, said in a note that he expected the ECB to continue gradually cutting interest rates after cutting by 25 basis points on Thursday. Mr. Mehdi said the ECB's slow pace of rate cuts was likely to boost the performance of European risk assets. "Against the backdrop of fading US exceptionalism, we believe the global equity rally, including the outperformance of eurozone equities, will continue further in 2025."
Risk appetite fell sharply in February, but rising pessimism is not always a bad sign. In fact, some investors use the survey as a contrarian indicator. Click to view...
