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After a long weekend, Wall Street is ready to dive back into earnings season. With the ECB taking its time to wrap up bond-buying and start raising rates, it would take something quite substantial to rock the boat. It would appear gold isn’t going to extend its winning run ...

As we enter 22Q1 earnings season, the market will be adapting to ‘a new normal’ as we exit 2021 which saw STOXX 600 earnings growth increase by 76.6%, a record-year in large part to base effects. Using Refinitiv Datastream, the GFK U.K. Consumer Confidence Index reading ...

Global growth uncertainty has accelerated, while inflation appears likely to persist. Still, we anticipate neither recession nor stagnation; moreover, central bank tightening expectations have likely peaked, potentially normalizing interest rate volatility and supporting spread sector...

Investors who look to bonds for safety and modest returns just received a brutal lesson in the perils of unexamined optimism. Basic investment doctrine holds that a trend of rising rates creates losses for existing bondholders. Surging inflation in Europe will soon be putting the ...

Supply shocks have created scarcity inflation, making higher inflation more persistent and increasing the risk of a growth slowdown. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields hit three-year highs after it became clear the Fed will start to reduce its balance sheet quickly. We see further yield ri...

Jimmy Xu: Volatility has been more pronounced in fixed income than equities in 2022. Xu: Volatility is uneven across different asset classes. Xu: We have been creating diversification through the use of options, especially in the equity space. For further details see: Wh...

Measured in standard deviation, inflation divergence in the eurozone has never been higher than it is now. As energy prices are the main driver behind current inflation divergence, the ECB will not really be too concerned. Inflation divergence in the eurozone is currently one of t...

The coming days are eventful. And that is with the known unknown, Russia's actions in Ukraine, held in abeyance. The ECB finds itself in a pickle as it meets on April 14! Consumer inflation surged to 7.5% in March (preliminary estimate) from 5.9% in February. The US reports prices...

You have probably noticed that prices at the grocery store are higher than they were a year ago, but some, like cereal and sunflower oil, are a whole lot higher. This impending food crisis has been somewhat overlooked in developed-world analysis about the economic effects of the crisi...

Business costs are now rising at a rate not seen since 2008. Input cost inflation accelerated worldwide in both manufacturing and services. COVID-19 containment measures have been almost completely removed in the UK and US, though many restrictions persist in the eurozone. F...