Market Views: How will rising interest rates affect Asian capital markets?
Concerns remain on whether interest rate hikes by the Fed will be able to slow economic activity and tame inflation — or push the US economy into recession, triggering major uncertainties for Asian capital markets.
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) raised interest rates by a half percent last Wednesday (May 4) – the biggest increase in 20 years and the second time this year after the quarter-percent hike on March 16 — sending stock markets rallying on the news but reversing sharply the next day, losing almost all of the previous day’s gains.
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