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Southeast Asian Stocks to Offer Shelter Amid Trump Threat

(Bloomberg) -- Global investors are looking to Southeast Asia for some shelter as they brace for uncertainties surrounding Donald Trump’s trade policies, boosting prospects for the region’s stocks in the coming year.Most Read from BloombergNYPD Car Chases Are Becoming More Frequent — and More DangerousThe US president-elect’s targeted tariff plan for China is likely to accelerate a shift in global supply chains and foreign direct investment that may favor the region, analysts said. Meanwhile, ec

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Wall Street Pros Say Fears of Fewer Fed Cuts Sparking Selloff

(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve did what markets expected Wednesday. But that didn’t stop investors from dumping risk assets in droves.Most Read from BloombergNYPD Car Chases Are Becoming More Frequent — and More DangerousStock sold off violently at the end of the session after the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, its third straight reduction, and Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the central bank will likely put further reductions on hold while inflation stays abov

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Morning Bid: Fed's 'hawkish cut' slams markets, BOJ up next

The Federal Reserve has spoken, and as far as investors are concerned, the message was clear - clearly hawkish. Investors in Asia go into Thursday on the defensive after the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point as expected, but signaled a slower pace of easing ahead.

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Stocks skid after Fed signals it will slow down its easing

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 2.96%, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 3.62% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell or 2.61%. The Dow and S&P saw their biggest one-day percentage decline since Aug. 5 and the Nasdaq saw its biggest daily decline since July 24. "Everything in the dot plot suggested that we have higher economic growth, a stronger labor market, more inflation, fewer Fed rate cuts and a higher neutral rate."

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