End of austerity? Continuation? Unknown US economy...Moody's, Xi Jinping, Trump [Hwa Sik Yong Hong]. The mood changed in a week. Expectations of an end to austerity were raised in late October when the U.S. Treasury announced plans to issue less-than-expected Treasury bonds, and then earlier this month when the Federal Reserve's Open Market Operations Committee (FOMC) kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged. .....