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1 week ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Yadarisa Shabong |Alun John

By Yadarisa Shabong and Alun John LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have darkened the global economic backdrop, forcing big central banks to reassess their next steps. Policymakers outside the United States now look more likely to cut interest rates than they would have done otherwise - or in Japan's case raise them less. The U.S. Federal Reserve is in a tricky position. Here's a look at where 10 developed-market central banks stand.

1 week ago | zawya.com | Alun John

Euro zone government bond yields dipped on Thursday, outperforming U.S. Treasuries as a new burst of risk aversion across assets pushed investors back towards European safe havens. Germany's 10-year bond yield was down 5 basis points at 2.50%, its lowest in slightly over a week. The euro zone benchmark has been a major beneficiary from the recent tariff-induced market turmoil, particularly due to some jitters about U.S. Treasuries.

1 week ago | zawya.com | Alun John |Amanda Cooper

LONDON - Sterling edged up against the dollar on Wednesday, as heightened uncertainty over the outlook for U.S. trade policy kept the U.S. currency under pressure across the board, while a batch of softer UK inflation data dented the pound against the euro. British inflation slowed to an annual rate of 2.6% in March from 2.8% in February below analysts expectations of 2.7%, according to the office for National Statistics.

1 week ago | marketscreener.com | Tom Westbrook |Alun John

SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar resumed its descent on Wednesday, dropping across the board and losing the most ground to the Swiss franc and the euro as a new bout of tariff-induced nerves gripped markets. The dollar has been a casualty of shaken confidence in the United States as radical tariffs have been threatened, enforced and then partially postponed over a wild few weeks for world trade and markets.

1 week ago | zawya.com | Alun John

LONDON: Global investors have slashed their holdings of U.S. stocks by a record amount in the past two months, a trend that is likely to continue given a record number of managers say they plan to keep cutting their exposure, BofA Global Research said on Tuesday. Respondents to BofA's monthly survey of fund managers were a net 36% underweight U.S. equities, the most in nearly two years, a number that has plunged by 53 percentage points since February, the biggest such fall on their records.