Financial Markets Update 30 October 2025
The body language
News Overnight
Terrible inflation numbers in Australia seems to have derailed the RBA’s eternal desire to cut rates. A spike in inflation in Canada this month didn’t stop the BoC cutting yesterday, or the FED who have no data to depend on.
The concerted lowering of rates by central banks may be viewed as a concerted policy error. Only time will tell. Read more
Fed chair Powell losing grip as rate cut decision shows division [investing.com]
Fed trims US rates by quarter point but casts doubt on December cut [FT]
Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 2.25% [CBC]
Breaking
S&P 500 gives up gains after Fed’s Powell cools bets on December rate cut [investing.com]
Trump Uses Government-Investing Push to Boost Nuclear Industry [Yahoo! Finance]
Bank of Korea May Buy Gold in Medium-Term After Long Hiatus [Bloomberg]
US Senate passes bill to terminate Trump tariffs against Brazil [Reuters]
Japan’s major life insurers plan to trim yen bond holdings in Oct-March [investing.com]
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