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US inflation continued to soar in May, with the Core Consumer Price Index up 0.7% month over month and 3.8% year over year. Fears around rising rates center on the rapidly recovering US economy, which will soon require tapering of purchases in the US Federal Reserve’s quantitat...

The reopening should continue across the major developed economies through the second half of 2021. The focus for markets has shifted to the strength of the growth rebound, the implications for inflation and the timing of central bank moves to taper asset purchases and eventually rais...

“Stocks always go up in the long run” is not a universal law. To this very day, the Nikkei 225 languishes some 25 percent below its all-time high reached at the end of 1989. In April, two things happened of note: the Nikkei 225 crossed the 30,000 level for the first time...

US stocks rallied to record highs and dollar weakness returned as investors shrug off the hawkish tilt given at last week’s FOMC policy decision. The trading week ended with a mixed inflation report that contained a downside surprise with the monthly reading. The upcoming w...

The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest rates or the dollar collapses. The lessons from the past have taught us that central bankers only notice a b...

The US continued to lead the global economic rebound in June, according to flash PMI data from IHS Markit, but also showed signs of growth peaking from May's record expansion. The slower growth in the US and UK was in part linked to short-term difficulties in sourcing sufficient input...

The au Jibun Bank Flash Japan Composite PMI, compiled by IHS Markit and published ahead of the final PMI results, indicated Japan's private sector shrank for a second straight month and at a faster pace in June. Manufacturing output notably slipped back into contraction after growing ...

The global economy has reached an important milestone in the second quarter of 2021, surpassing the pre-pandemic real GDP peak attained in the fourth quarter of 2019. After a 3.5% contraction in 2020, global real GDP is projected to increase 6.0% in 2021, its strongest advance since 1...

Consumer prices in Japan fell again in May, according to that country’s Ministry of Finance. These miniscule inflation figures aren’t just typical for Japan, they are just as consistent with those for consumer price conditions around much of the rest of the developed wor...

Next week is filled with Fed speak that could show more policymakers are turning hawkish given the Fed’s overall surprise with pricing pressures this year. Currency markets are bracing for potentially more dollar momentum as the Fed has signaled they are now not willing to tole...