‘The Fed is breaking things’ – Here’s what has Wall Street on edge as risks rise around the world

‘The Fed is breaking things’ – Here’s what has Wall Street on edge as risks rise around the world

From cnbc.com

As the Federal Reserve ramps up efforts to tame inflation, sending the dollar surging and bonds and stocks into a tailspin, concern is rising that the central bank’s campaign will have unintended and potentially dire consequences. Markets entered a perilous new phase in the past week, one in which statistically unusual moves across asset classes are becoming commonplace. The stock selloff gets most of the headlines, but it is in the gyrations and interplay of the far bigger global markets for currencies and bonds where trouble is brewing, according to Wall Street veterans.After being criticized for being slow to ... (full story)

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