Federal Reserve eyes 2022 rate rise

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/a3b42914-2e0e-4246-bc45-1ea9b19b690b

The Federal Reserve has given its strongest signal yet that it will start tapering its bond buying stimulus programme this year and more central bank officials see a first interest rate rise in 2022; Japan’s SoftBank has followed Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala in backing a new $2.5bn private equity fund set up by former US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin just eight months after he left office; and the FT’s James Kynge explains that the unravelling of China’s Evergrande property developer shows deep flaws in the country’s growth strategy. 

More Fed officials see first interest rate rise in 2022 https://www.ft.com/content/719c11ec-fb24-40b3-a661-518aa3bc6028

SoftBank backs Steven Mnuchin’s $2.5bn private equity fund https://www.ft.com/content/24da1d88-8e63-4868-849f-3e3ecff1c39a

Valued at $41bn in 2020, the spectacular unravelling of the Chinese property group Evergrande exposes deep flaws in Beijing’s growth strategy https://www.ft.com/content/ea1b79bf-cbe3-41d9-91da-0a1ba692309f

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