Overseas Headlines – October 3, 2025

October 3, 2025

United States:

US Bond Yields Climb as Goolsbee Counsels Caution

 

US Treasury yields advanced after Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee reiterated his view that officials should proceed carefully with interest-rate cuts.

 

The benchmark 10-year which helps set a range of borrowing costs in the US rose nearly 2 basis points to 4.10%.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates?srnd=phx-markets

 

 

Europe:

ECB Rates in Good Place to Deliver Stable Inflation, Wunsch Says

 

The European Central Bank’s policy settings are appropriate to ensure consumer prices are rising in line with the 2% target in the medium term, according to Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch.

Pierre Wunsch

 

Officials found the “perfect calibration” for interest rates “after we started really fighting the beast,” the governor of the Belgian central bank said at a conference in Amsterdam. “We’ve been doing a very good job,” and “we are in a good place.”

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-03/ecb-rates-in-good-place-to-deliver-stable-inflation-wunsch-says?srnd=phx-economics-v2

 

 

 

Asia:

Japan’s Jobless Rate Edges Up to Highest in Over a Year

 

Japan’s jobless rate rose to its highest in over a year, signaling a slight loosening of the labor market as speculation swirls over a Bank of Japan rate hike in the near term.

 

The unemployment rate rose to 2.6% in August from 2.3% in the previous month, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported Friday, against a median economist expectation of 2.4%.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/japan-s-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-boj-heads-toward-next-meeting?srnd=phx-economics-central-banks

 

 

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