Asian stocks opened mostly lower Thursday after shares on Wall Street eased overnight ahead of the release of US inflation data. MSCI’s index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was trading 0.42 per cent lower.
Chicago Fed President Goolsbee rejects calls for Fed rate cuts to ease US debt burden
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee rejected calls for interest-rate cuts to ease the US government’s debt burden, warning that such a move could fuel inflation