Markets
Every Magna Bureau story on markets: 24 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
The dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields… — Magna Bureau
The dollar index hits an eight-week high and the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5% — unseen since 2007. Gold falls below $4,300. The Fed arithmetic, in full.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets… — Magna Bureau
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers… — Magna Bureau
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion… — Magna Bureau
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee h
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as… — Magna Bureau
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports… — Magna Bureau
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP
NewsAmazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership… — Magna Bureau
A day after unveiling premium Alexa tablets, Amazon hands its loss-making assistant to an advertising-and-TV executive. The bet: Alexa+ at $139 a year with Prime, or $20 a month alone, finally makes t
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month… — Magna Bureau
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High… — Magna Bureau
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone… — Magna Bureau
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive… — Magna Bureau
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsHall and Woodford win the 2026 Nobel… — Magna Bureau
Stockholm honoured Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for rebuilding macroeconomics on the decisions of real households and firms — the theory that now guides interest rates, inflation targets and cr
NewsMusk's $366 Million Midterm Bet… — Magna Bureau
Elon Musk has become the largest donor of the 2026 midterms, pouring $366 million into Republican races after vowing he had done enough. The money says this is power, not charity.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger… — Magna Bureau
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsBank Earnings Split Wall Street as Goldman… — Magna Bureau
Goldman Sachs posted a near-record quarter on equities trading while JPMorgan missed estimates, and a chip sell-off left the Nasdaq lower on Tuesday.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe… — Magna Bureau
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price… — Magna Bureau
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system… — Magna Bureau
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCrypto: beyond the casino… — Magna Bureau
The speculation was loud, leveraged and often ruinous. The quieter story — stablecoins, tokenisation and settlement rails — may be the one that lasts.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules — Magna Bureau
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust — Magna Bureau
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September… — Magna Bureau
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites… — Magna Bureau
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound. But OPEC cut its 2026 demand forecast for a sixth straight month — the mark
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4%… — Magna Bureau
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.