In late October, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s plan to change the name of its parent company to ‘Meta’, in an effort to rebrand…
The Fed is widely – if not unanimously – expected to begin tapering down its $120bn-a-month bond purchases this week, aiming to end them by next…
The Bank of England is not likely to make any policy changes at its meeting this week. The focus then will be on any changes in…
Last month was the big month for the RBA. They had to decide whether to roll over their market intervention from the April 2024 bond into…
Japan: the outlier Manufacturing barely recovered, is turning down Service sector hasn’t recovered yet Tokyo CPI = 0% yoy Japan will be the last country to…
When most people think of inflation, they think of the consumer price index (CPI). That’s not what the Fed uses to determine whether it’s meeting its…
Today the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the producer price index (PPI). With the market’s attention focused firmly on the outlook for inflation, this…
The big issue to be decided at Thursday’s ECB meeting is the pace of bond purchases in their Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP). Just to remind…
Thursday’s US consumer price index (CPI) for May will be perhaps the most closely watched indicator so far this year. The big question facing the financial…
This past weekend was the eighth anniversary of the famous 2013/14 “taper tantrum.” In light of the fact that last week’s minutes of the April meeting…
