The Nasdaq rose to 1%, while the S&P 500 index rose 0.58% and the Dow rose 0.1%.Mackler, Governor of the Bank of Canada: As expected, the high housing inflation continued to ease, and the downward pressure of commodity prices on inflation eased.Bank of Canada Governor Mackler M: Monetary policy no longer needs to remain tight. The job market is still weakening. Officials will adopt a more "gradual" interest rate policy.
Market News: The US CPI report in November may suggest that the core PCE index, the inflation indicator favored by the Federal Reserve, may rise slightly to 2.9% in the last two months of 2024.Mackler, Governor of the Bank of Canada: As expected, the high housing inflation continued to ease, and the downward pressure of commodity prices on inflation eased.Bank of Canada Governor Mackler M: Monetary policy no longer needs to remain tight. The job market is still weakening. Officials will adopt a more "gradual" interest rate policy.
Fitch: The progress of inflation decline seems to have ended. Brian Coulton, chief economist of Fitch, said that the decline of core commodity prices (the main force of inflation decline this year) seems to have ended. With the increase of automobile prices, the core commodity prices rose by 0.3% month-on-month. Service inflation is declining, but the rate of decline is very slow, because rent inflation is stubborn, and the service inflation is 4.6%, which is still far higher than the pre-epidemic level.The Bank of Canada cut interest rates sharply by 50 basis points, suggesting that the pace of monetary easing may be slowed down. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates sharply for the second time in a row, and suggested that policy makers are prepared to slow down the pace of monetary easing. Central bank officials, led by Tiff Macklem, the governor, cut the benchmark overnight rate by 50 basis points to 3.25% on Wednesday, which is at the high end of the neutral interest rate forecast range. However, they also hinted that after several sharp interest rate cuts, it may return to a slow pace in 2025. The latest statement removed the statement that "the borrowing cost is expected to be further reduced" in previous statements.The war-torn people in Syria are in fear, and the sudden escalation of the situation in Syria has plunged the country into a new round of violence. The air strikes in recent days have made the Syrian people nervous and live in fear all day. (CCTV)