London — A positive start in Europe nudged the main world share indexes and bond yields higher on Thursday, after the US Federal Reserve’s second interest rate cut of the year while Japan and others kept their limited remaining powder dry.
The effects of the trade war has seen central banks around the world swing back into support mode in 2019, but the Fed’s central message on Wednesday was that it wasn’t expecting a major capitulation of the economy...
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