Wall Street slumps as worries worsen about inflation and tariffs
Interest rates are one of the things Wall Street cares most about because lower rates can lead to higher prices for stocks ...
Bank of England poised to cut rates but inflation worries linger
The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates on Thursday for only the third time since just after the start of the ...
How to trade the trade war
Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but swift market reversals are keeping them on edge ...
Donald Trump faces backlash from business as tariffs ignite inflation fears
Donald Trump faced a backlash from business groups and some in his own Republican party after kicking off a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on the US’s three largest trading partners.
Dovish BoE officials cut rates in the face of hawkish forecasts
The BoE’s forecasts suggest it will only cut rates two more times over the next three years on the back of higher inflation and weaker underlying growth capacity. The 7-to-2 vote to cut rates with a ...
Noise, not signal
The rationale for the bank’s doves may be to frontload cuts — the UK still has some of the highest rates globally — before the rise in inflation makes it prohibitive. This was the market’s ...
ECB delivers quarter-point cut and little change in tone
ECB cuts the deposit rate by a quarter point to 2.75 per cent as expected and offers little shift in tone from December as it continues to move policy away from restrictive territory ...
Market talk
The US labour market is also in focus next week with an update on hires and fires over December on Tuesday. Payroll data for January also arrives on Friday with 170,000 non-farm jobs expected to have ...
The real threat to American prosperity
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral ...
India needs an ambitious agenda for higher growth
To meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s target of turning India into a developed nation by 2047, the economy would need to hit ...
Transcript of FT interview with Olli Rehn
FT: In November, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde suggested an alternative approach: do not retaliate immediately but try to find a constructive solution fast. If this initial stage ...
Remembering the ‘left tail’
The left “tail” is the unusually bad one. The global financial crisis was a left-tail event. So was the oil-price collapse in 2016. Put simply: Not good! From GS: ...