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Ghana’s financial sector staged a significant recovery in 2025, with total assets reaching GH¢647.25 billion, representing roughly 45.1% of the nation’s GDP, according to the latest Financial Stability Review. The milestone comes on the back of a strong domestic economic performance in which real GDP growth accelerated to 6.0%, surpassing the 5.8% recorded the previous [...] The post Ghana’s financial sector hits GH¢647bn milestone amid robust 6.0% economic growth in 2025 appeared first on Ghana News Online .
TRON news is back in focus as the network's $2.04T stablecoin settlement engine reminds traders why TRX remains one of crypto's most used chains. Stablecoins are the real liquidity layer of the market, and TRON has become one of the
Public sector banks in India are seeing their liquidity coverage ratios decline. This trend is driven by strong loan demand outpacing retail deposit growth. Banks are using their excess liquidity to fund loans. This situation is expected to improve with new regulatory norms starting in Q1 FY27. The changes will impact how certain business accounts are treated for liquidity calculations.
The LINK price jumped back into focus this week after the DTCC selected Chainlink to power a collateral platform covering $114 trillion in assets. LINK trades near $10.06 on May 14 while Fidelity and Kraken also signed Chainlink deals within
Powell exits amid another bond market surge Jerome Powell is leaving the Fed chairmanship at a time when the bond market is once again under pressure. The 10-year Treasury yield is posting its largest weekly rise since April 2025, climbing 23.5 basis points, or 5.39%, in just one week. After ending 2025 near 4.16%, the yield fell to a low of 3.926% before surging to as high as 4.599% today. The move underscores just how volatile the interest-rate landscape has become — fitting for the close of one of the most turbulent Fed tenures in modern history. The 10-year yield roller coaster during Powell’s tenure When Powell officially took over from Janet Yellen on February 5, 2018, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was trading near 2.85%. During his tenure, the Treasury market experienced historic swings. The low point came during the COVID panic in 2020, when the 10-year yield collapsed to roughly 0.50%, with some intraday trades briefly dipping below 0.40% as investors rushed into safe-haven assets. From there, yields staged a dramatic reversal, eventually peaking near 5.02% in October 2023 — the highest level since 2007. That means Powell’s tenure saw the 10-year yield travel through a range of more than 450 basis points from the pandemic low to the 2023 high — one of the most volatile interest-rate cycles in modern Treasury market history. Inflation surge became the defining macro story The broader U.S. economy experienced equally historic swings under Powell’s watch. Inflation, measured by CPI year-over-year, fell as low as 0.1% in May 2020 during the COVID shutdown recession before surging to 9.1% in June 2022 — the highest inflation reading since 1981. That inflation shock ultimately became the defining macroeconomic event of Powell’s chairmanship and forced the Federal Reserve into its most aggressive tightening campaign since the early 1980s. GDP saw historic collapse and rebound GDP growth also moved through unprecedented extremes. Real GDP contracted at a -31.4% annualized pace in Q2 2020 during the pandemic collapse, only to rebound by +33.8% in Q3 2020 as the economy reopened. Those back-to-back quarters marked the largest contraction and rebound in modern U.S. economic history. Labor market experienced historic extremes The labor market followed a similarly dramatic path. When Powell took office, the unemployment rate stood near 4.1%. During the COVID shutdowns, unemployment exploded to 14.8% in April 2020 — the highest level since the Great Depression era. Yet the recovery proved equally historic, with unemployment eventually falling to 3.4% in early 2023, the lowest level since 1969. Today, the unemployment rate sits near 4.3%, remarkably close to where it was when Powell first assumed the role. The major policy cycles of the Powell era Looking back, Powell’s tenure can largely be broken into several major policy and market cycles: 2018 tightening cycle: Powell entered office continuing the Fed’s gradual rate-hiking campaign inherited from the Yellen era. 2019 pre-COVID easing: Slowing global growth and trade-war concerns led the Fed to pivot toward rate cuts before the pandemic began. 2020 COVID crisis: The Fed slashed rates to near zero, launched massive quantitative easing programs, and stabilized financial markets during the pandemic panic. 2021–2022 inflation shock: The Fed underestimated the persistence of post-pandemic inflation, delaying aggressive tightening as inflation pressures accelerated. 2022–2023 rapid tightening cycle: Powell then led one of the fastest rate-hiking campaigns in Fed history to regain control over inflation expectations. 2024–2026 higher-for-longer transition: As inflation gradually eased, the Fed shifted toward maintaining restrictive policy before eventually beginning the process toward lower rates. Powell’s legacy will remain heavily debated Critics will likely point to the delayed response to post-COVID inflation as Powell’s biggest policy mistake. The Fed initially viewed inflation as “transitory,” only to be forced into an aggressive catch-up tightening cycle once price pressures became embedded in the economy. Supporters, however, will argue Powell successfully navigated multiple once-in-a-generation crises, including the pandemic collapse, banking-sector stress, supply-chain disruptions, and the sharpest inflation surge in four decades. Either way, Powell’s tenure coincided with one of the most volatile and consequential macroeconomic periods ever managed by a modern Federal Reserve chair. This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.
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PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP – Get Free Report) was the recipient of unusually large options trading activity on Friday. Investors acquired 88,181 call options on the company. This is an increase of 272% compared to the typical volume of 23,720 call options. Institutional Investors Weigh In On PepsiCo A number of institutional investors have recently modified [...]
Toast, Inc. (NYSE:TOST – Get Free Report) was the target of some unusual options trading on Friday. Stock investors purchased 22,162 put options on the company. This represents an increase of 36% compared to the average volume of 16,325 put options. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades TOST has been the topic of a number of recent [...]
Sweetgreen, Inc. (NYSE:SG – Get Free Report) was the target of unusually large options trading on Friday. Stock traders bought 66,898 call options on the company. This represents an increase of 910% compared to the typical daily volume of 6,626 call options. Sweetgreen Stock Up 16.5% Shares of NYSE:SG traded up $1.14 during midday trading [...]