London — World stocks were cautiously higher on Wednesday as hopes that a banking crisis would be averted were tempered by uncertainty ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting that will see the central bank caught between taming inflation and maintaining stability.
“So far, the banking issues are more idiosyncratic than systemic, and a system breakdown has become far less likely in the wake of the extraordinary deposit support announced by the Fed in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse,” said Padhraic Garvey, regional head of research, Americas at ING.
How Powell navigates all this in his 6.30pm GMT news conference could determine whether markets succumb to fresh selling or stabilise further.
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