More obstacles for U.S. banks

More obstacles for U.S. banks

A woman walks past JPMorgan Chase & Co’s international headquarters on Park Avenue in New York. Andrew Burton | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you … Read more

Financial markets aren’t the economy

Financial markets aren’t the economy

A ‘help wanted’ sign is displayed in a window of a store in Manhattan on December 2, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more

Federal Funds Market Show Signs of Stress in US Banking System

Federal Funds Market Show Signs of Stress in US Banking System

Borrowing activity in the federal funds market is signaling that stress in the US banking system hasn’t fully gone away. Although a decline in total volume suggests the overall need for excess cash has lessened, the spread between what borrowers at the highest percentile of the daily fed funds distribution have to pay and those … Read more

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

Short sellers are ramping up bets against US stocks even as paper losses on the positions surpass $100 billion. Total US short interest, or the amount traders have spent betting against US equities, exceeded $1 trillion this month as the S&P 500 Index extended its advance, S3 Partners LLC data show. The tally reached the … Read more

NGN/USD: Nigeria Naira High-Value Banknotes to Be Replaced to Curb Hoarding

NGN/USD: Nigeria Naira High-Value Banknotes to Be Replaced to Curb Hoarding

Nigeria’s central bank said it’s move to replace high-value currency notes will help prevent hoarding and stymie illegal activity and kidnappings in Africa’s largest economy. The country’s banking regulator plans to issue redesigned 200-, 500- and 1,000-naira notes from mid-December, Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele said at a briefing in Abuja, the capital, on Wednesday. … Read more

Digital U.S. Dollar Looks ‘Inevitable,’ Bank of America (BAC) Strategists Say

Digital U.S. Dollar Looks ‘Inevitable,’ Bank of America (BAC) Strategists Say

The U.S. will likely move forward with its own digital currency, with issuance occurring between 2025 and 2030, according to Bank of America Corp. U.S. government-backed coins, also known as central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, “are an inevitable evolution of today’s electronic currencies,” strategists Alkesh Shah and Andrew Moss, wrote in a report Monday. … Read more