Global stocks mixed after Wall St falls on rate hike worries

A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Asian stocks were mixed Friday after Wall Street declined following indications the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates higher than expected to cool inflation. – Asian stock markets fell Friday while Europe opened higher after a Federal Reserve official suggested U.S.

Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.3% on Thursday after a Fed official indicated the U.S. central bank might need to raise its key lending rate as high as almost double its already elevated level to rein in price increases. Officialsfor an extended period, but traders hoped signs of slowing economic activity might cause the Fed to back off those plans.

“Fed hawks continued to circle the wagons, repeatedly emphasizing their fight against inflation is far from done,” said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 future was up 0.2%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.3% higher.The major U.S. indexes were all headed for weekly losses.. James Bullard suggested the Fed’s key short-term lending rate may have to rise to between 5% and 7%.

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Stocks fall as Fed signals rates need to go still higher | amNewYorkStocks are opening lower on Wall Street and Treasury yields are rising after more indications from the Federal Reserve that the central bank may need to raise interest rates much higher than many people expect to get inflation under control.
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