We should’ve known something was up from the speeches made on Nov. 22nd when President Biden reappointed Fed Chair Powell and appointed Gov. Brainard as Vice…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap After days of some volatility, FX rates were little changed overnight. I’m astonished to see oil up and CAD…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap FX market moves today look like a typical “risk-off” basket move, with JPY up and the three commodity currencies…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap As on Friday it all comes down to the Omicron variant of the virus. What we learned over the…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap As one economist quoted in the paper said, “It is fair to say that we didn’t see that coming.”…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap Not much action in currencies overnight but a lot in oil. Oil prices rose after US President Biden announced…
We’ve heard a lot about inflation. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the US, the biggest national holiday, when much of the country gathers together and…
Inflation is the topic that just keeps on giving. It used to be that every Thursday I’d start panicking. “What should I write about this week?”…
So… the Fed finally tapered! OK, now what do we talk about? Now we start speculating about « lift-off » – the time when they start raising interest…
I debated whether the title of this week’s piece should be “from ‘transitory’ to ‘persistent’” but decided to go with the above. In any case, the…
