Finance
FMs, central bank guvs of BRICS nations vow to deepen financial cooperation
The Finance Ministers and Central Financial institution Governors of BRICS nations issued a joint assertion at a digital assembly on Monday, reaching consensus on deepening monetary cooperation and strengthening coordination on macroeconomic coverage.
The assembly, co-chaired by China’s central financial institution governor Yi Gang and finance minister Liu Kun, mentioned matters equivalent to enhancing the Contingent Reserve Association and the cooperation of transition finance and different areas, Xinhua reported.
On the assembly, Yi spoke extremely of the concerted efforts made by all BRICS nations in reaching optimistic progress in monetary cooperation.
The assembly referred to as upon the worldwide group to foster partnerships, noting that it’s crucial to strengthen macro-policy coordination in driving the world economic system out of the disaster and shaping a robust, sustainable, balanced and inclusive post-pandemic financial restoration.
It additionally reiterated BRICS nations’ dedication to sustaining a robust and efficient World Monetary Security Web with a quota-based and adequately resourced IMF at its middle, calling for the well timed and profitable completion of the sixteenth Common Overview of Quotas.
The assembly additionally acknowledged the essential function of sustainable finance within the international financial restoration in addition to the significance of transition finance in facilitating orderly inexperienced and low-carbon transition.
Union Minister for Finance and Company Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman participated through digital mode within the second BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Financial institution Governors (FMCBG) assembly underneath the BRICS China chairmanship.
Sitharaman noticed that BRICS ought to proceed to function a platform to interact in dialogues and facilitate change of experiences, issues and concepts for rebuilding a sustainable and inclusive progress trajectory.
Talking on India’s progress outlook, the Finance Minister shared that India’s financial progress will proceed to be supported by fiscal spending together with an funding push, imparting momentum to the economic system based mostly on the concept of progress at macro degree complemented by all inclusive welfare at micro degree.
(Solely the headline and film of this report might have been reworked by the Enterprise Normal employees; the remainder of the content material is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Stock market today: Nasdaq, S&P 500 edge higher ahead of Christmas break
US stocks opened higher to kick off the final, shortened trading session before the Christmas holiday. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) edged up about 0.2%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose roughly 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) hugged the flatline.
Wall Street is looking to enter its Christmas break rejuvenated, after tech stocks including AI chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) led the march higher on Monday. Markets close at 1 p.m. ET today and are off tomorrow for Christmas Day.
Sizable gains on Friday and Monday have put the indexes back on the path toward their record highs, from which they took a Fed-fueled nosedive last week.
Wall Street is reassessing the path of interest rates next year as it grapples with the reality that the Fed mostly pulled off a so-called soft landing — but couldn’t fully shake the US economy’s inflation problem. According to the CME FedWatch tool, most bets are on two coming holds at the Fed’s January and March meetings, followed by a toss-up in May.
Meanwhile, many eyes continue to be trained on Nvidia, which saw a more than 3.5% gain on Monday. As Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley writes, 2024 was Nvidia’s year, with the stock up some 180%. But 2025 could contain plenty of challenges.
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China’s Finance Ministry Vows Greater, Faster Spending in 2025
China’s finance ministry reaffirmed it will increase public spending with a greater focus on boosting consumption to support the economy next year, ahead of growth headwinds from looming US tariffs.
China will “expand the magnitude of fiscal spending and accelerate the spending pace,” according to a statement published Tuesday following a two-day national conference held by the Ministry of Finance on fiscal work in 2025.
Finance
All 11 sectors expected to broaden out in 2025, strategist says
United Parcel Service (UPS) is just one of Powers Advisory Group Managing Partner Matt Powers’ top picks for 2025, calling the postal carrier and logistics operator as having “defensive characteristics and high valuations” as it looks to get carried by several tailwinds next year. UPS is set to release fourth quarter earnings results on January 30, 2025.
Powers sits down with Wealth host Brad Smith to talk about the other opportunities he is seeing across markets (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) in the new year.
“Broadening it looks like so all 11 major sectors are actually expected to have year over year earnings increases in 2025. And I think we had or will have seven of the 11 this year, which suggests broadening out,” Powers tells Yahoo Finance.
“But the S&P [500] is trading at 21 times forward earnings, while dividend growth equities which is kind of our core focus are at 19 times. So we see again going back to that back-to-basics approach shifting towards value and just underappreciated areas of the market.”
To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Wealth here.
This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
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