The European Central Bank (ECB) will take needed steps to ensure that the Eurozone avoids a debt crisis similar...
Archive for category: TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT
Each week, we report instances where the money junky hedge funds, private equity groups and the already big companies...
BIDEN SAYS HE CAN DO LITTLE TO REVERSE INFLATION The Biden administration has little power and few tools to...
With inflation at a 31-year high of 6.8 percent, last week the Bank of Canada (BoC) boosted its policy...
India’s economy expanded by 4.1 percent in its most recent quarter, a figure that would have been higher if...
Across the 19-country Eurozone, the prices manufacturers charge for their products leaving the factory spiked 37.2 percent in April,...
After recent major sell-offs, hedge funds see an even more gloomy future for the world’s equity markets, according to...
On 1 June, China’s largest city, with 25 million people, began lifting its two-month anti-COVID lockdown that had trapped...
In a concession to the West, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and an affiliated group of oil producers...
During the COVID War, China became the world’s manufacturer, supplying everything from razor blades to laptops—and the world’s consumers...
Investors and government officials are underestimating the impact of the global “food shock” now spreading across emerging countries and...
In April, for the first time in almost two years, South Korea’s consumer spending, industrial output, and investment all...
Each week, we report instances where the money junky hedge funds, private equity groups and the already big companies...
INFLATION CRIMPS GLOBAL GROWTH The world’s economies slowed this month because of high inflation combined with rising interest rates,...
CHINA’S COVID LOCKDOWN HARMS DOMESTIC, GLOBAL ECONOMIES Adidas, Intercontinental Hotels Group, and Starbucks are among the multinational firms that...
Commodity investment funds have drawn a net inflow of $28.7 billion in new cash this year through 10 May,...
It’s the same old story, what goes up, must come down. And weak economic growth and rising inflation is...
The price of emerging economies’ bonds has cratered, with the benchmark JPMorgan EMBI Global Diversified index falling 15 percent...
Faced with a toxic combination of global food shortages and rising prices, 26 nations so far have reduced or...
The Bank of Russia cut its interest rate again last week, with bank governor Elvira Nabiullina warning that the...