LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) – The yen got a boost on Thursday on expectations the Bank of Japan will review the side effects of its monetary easing, while the dollar held near a seven-month low against the euro ahead of U.S. inflation data later in the day. The yen rose 1.3% to a session high […]
Three years from now, hypothetically, China launches an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. It does not go well, according to a top Washington think tank report. While the Taiwanese military is able to prevent initial invaders moving beyond beachheads, US Naval forces and aerial bombardments quickly cripple the Chinese naval fleet, aided by strikes from the […]
Multiple concurrent economic, political, and ecological shocks are converging to rock the globe in the next decade, and the world is playing catch-up to address them. The next 10 years are shaping up to be a transformational period for the world economy, which is under threat from a number of interrelated crises. The veteran economist […]
Solomon said, “When a wicked man rules, people groan.” We all understand how that works. In 2022 the American people groaned in many ways, but some of the loudest groaning was heard in the financial markets, in which very nearly every asset class racked up large losses. Falling markets are a clearer signal of pessimism […]
Australia’s economy was resilient towards the end of last year, with job vacancies and retail sales holding up, even as the World Bank joined other agencies to slash the outlook for growth in 2023. Data for November, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday, showed consumer price inflation picked up in the […]
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A new report from the Rhodium Group, a research firm that models greenhouse gas emissions, brings good news and bad news. First, the bad: U.S. emissions increased by just over 1 percent last year, making 2022 the second consecutive year of carbon emissions growth since the American economy began recovering from the early months of […]
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On Jan. 3, 2022, the S&P 500 index peaked at almost 4,800. It would subsequently close the year with a loss of 20 percent due to high inflation, a tightening Fed, the consequences of the Ukraine war and a faltering China, among other factors. The International Monetary Fund now assumes that one-third of the global economy will experience a recession this year. Will 2023 be another […]
A not-so-strong employment picture in December and a contraction in service sector activity showed that inflation may be cooling and that the Federal Reserve may not unleash a slew of rate hikes this year, as it did last year. Per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employers in the United States added 223,000 jobs last […]
