At first sight, the direction of financial markets in July might have come as a surprise: global equities posted their sixth consecutive monthly gain despite a...
"With Asset Prices So Frothy"... Former RBI Governor Fears Dangers Of Endless QE Authored by Raghuram Rajan via Project Syndicate, With asset prices so frothy, it...
Fear that the spread of the Delta mutation of the covid would disrupt the global economy spurred the unwinding of risk-on positions. Interest rates fell, and...
The HSBC share price has remained largely flat today, inching up just 0.2% by… The post HSBC share price unmoved despite bank doubling first half profit...
By Martin Kaufman and Daniel Leigh 2020 was a year of extremes. Travel all but ceased for a period. Oil prices wildly fluctuated. Trade in medical...
Three macro considerations are shaping the investment climate: the evolution of the virus and the response, the timeframe of the Fed's tapering, and China's broad regulatory...
Country US The upcoming jobs report will be pivotal for the Fed in deciding whether the economy is headed toward hitting their substantial progress goal. Now...
AstraZeneca said this morning that it has made $1.2 billion in sales from its COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria in The post AZ’s COVID-19 jab sales top $1.2bn,...
Futures Rise, Europe Hits Record Supported By Fed, China, Earnings World markets resumed their climb on Thursday after the Fed signaled it was in no rush...
Contrarian investing includes ways to profit from gold for investors willing to consider an asset that has been out of favor in recent times. One hotspot...
By Gita Gopinath عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging...
A week after it was reported that India’s Covid-19 death toll could be in the millions, antibody legend Tillman Gerngross has inked a deal to develop...
IMF Upgrades 2022 Global GDP Projection Just As Economic Growth Peaks There is no more sure way to guarantee that global economic growth has peaked than...
Futures Slide As Asian Stocks Plunge To 2021 Lows Futures swung from all time highs to losses during the European session and then rebounded again as...
American multinational technology company NVIDIA (NVDA) seems to be aggressively focused on adding British microchip company Arm into its family. Its recently commissioned research, which was...
Emerging Market Vulnerability Heatmap: Are EMs Threatened By Increasing Inflation Expectations By Wouter van Eijkelenburg, economist at Rabobank Emerging Market Vulnerability Heatmap Summary There are divergent...
The Delta variant of the virus has emerged as an important economic force, just as more countries appeared to adopt the attitude that we should now...
Major week for US markets All eyes on the US next week as the Fed meets and we head into peak earnings season. The central bank...
Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues...
Despite representing a relatively small proportion of sustainable bond issuance today, sustainability-linked bonds are rapidly becoming more popular. Xuan Sheng Ou Yong looks at these performance-linked securities and...
As second-quarter reporting kicks off, market expectations are high. Corporate earnings are forecast to have grown by more than 50% from the same quarter a year...
Investors’ views on the outlook for growth have gone from acceleration to anticipation of the coming peak, while on inflation, expectations have moved from a pickup...
While financial markets are wondering when and how the US Federal Reserve and the ECB will turn to monetary tightening, we expect the People’s Bank of...
We're not in Kansas anymore. The S&P 500 racked up another fine quarter with an 8.55% return, which brought the first half of the year to...
Financial markets want to know if the Fed is committed to a sustained inflation overshoot. The bond market flattener trade suggests many market participants think we...
In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and restarted its...
Stronger inflation data in the US again fuels the ‘transitory-versus-persistent’ debate on the fundamental nature of inflationary pressures. It is a discussion that has further to...
By Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Samuel Pienknagura, and Luca Ricci Protests driven by the pandemic’s economic fallout are on the rise, with potentially long-lasting economic consequences. Protests can...
In this time of crisis, we are often reminded of a famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill during World War II: “If you're going through hell,...
Pandemic-Driven Hunger Hits 15-Year High As Global Crisis Unfolds The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 (SOFI 2021) report warns food insecurity and malnutrition have...