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Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has a new book to promote. So while I am loath to fuel the sales campaign, his latest bomb in an interview...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves might be breathing a sigh of relief that 10-year gilt yields have fallen 25 basis points since last Tuesday...
With 30-year UK government bond yields having soared to the highest since 1998, we are again plunged back into crisis mode in the grandmother of bond...
Parity between the euro and the dollar is starting to look inevitable, and that would normally be a competitive boon for a manufacturing export-led...
In physics, the three-body problem describes the impossibility of calculating the trajectories of three independent masses because of the...
The last time the UK changed its chief bond salesperson, Tony Blair was surfing the wave of his pre-Iraq War popularity, his government was...
In the wake of the global financial crisis, British banks competing with a hand tied behind their back have lost plenty of ground to hedge funds....
The record amount of €1.71 trillion ($1.81 trillion) European syndicated new debt sold in 2024 opens up the strong likelihood that the new year...
Next week’s European Central Bank meeting is more important than it might first appear. President Christine Lagarde needs to set the template for...
UK inflation jumped by more than expected to 2.3% in October — back above the Bank of England's 2% target — from 1.7% the month prior, but that...
Typically, the best cure for high prices is simply higher prices, a lesson gold is learning the hard way. Since the prospect of a second Donald...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has her first serious opportunity on Thursday to show the City of London that the new Labour government...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has had a baptism of fire following her first budget on Wednesday. Her stiffest judge has been the UK...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves had one crucial objective in delivering the new Labour government's first budget: To set out a viable...
Every now and then an outlandish forecast grabs your attention enough to elicit this response: Really? One such example this week is from Steven...
The hand-wringing over the threatened flight of the wealthy from the UK over looming tax increases obscures a simple fact: The people already...
After a rocky first few weeks in power, Prime Minister Keir Starmer needs a gamechanger. Shock and awe on the fiscal front are about to rain down...
It’s rare you get a clean take from central bankers, but Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee didn’t mince his words on...
There aren't many sure things in life, but a second interest-rate cut from the European Central Bank Thursday is one of them. A 25 basis point...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s breaking the post-election deadlock with the coming appointment of a new prime minister will only solve the...
Has the tide turned decisively against King Dollar? A fall of around 5% in the greenback versus major currencies in the past two months, pushing...
The tricky last yards of closing in on — and then maintaining — the hallowed 2% inflation target that all the major central banks adhere to...
It’s a question of when, not if, the UK’s Labour government unfurls the tax increases needed to plug the yawning budget deficit. Chancellor of...
Confidence has broken out within the halls of the Bank of England: It’s decided to back its own forecasts — for once. A 25 basis point cut to 5%...
What’s to be done about Germany's inability to pull itself out of its economic mire? Europe's largest economy has been flatlining at best for much...
Sushil Wadhwani, a former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member turned hedge fund manager, has written an intriguing article on the...
Sterling has been out of favor with foreign investors for far too long. A confluence of events since the global financial crisis — first Brexit,...