USA Admin is behaving like a very angry father with a shot gun aimed at a luckless prospective son-in-law. But the daughter isn't even pregnant. The fault is with WH not at the FED.

Economist El-Erian: Fed now has no choice but to cut rates or risk disrupting markets

This writer seems to have become a WH stooge never daring to relate the Admin 'policies' to anything resembling economic analysis in a world crying out for more light and less heat. It is not correct that a central bank must stay silent about bad ...

Economist El-Erian: Fed now has no choice but to cut rates or risk disrupting markets

Massive capital gains on China's US treasury portfolio.

US-China trade war takes a breather as Beijing sees 'positive signal' in Donald Trump's tariff...

Analysis is always essential and multi times more useful than tweets off the cuff. Big picture - why is inflation so low? There are lots of reasons but what evidence do you put behind your bond purchase decision? We need articles to address this ...

Forget the Yield Curve. The US 30-Year Treasury Is Scary.

WH as usual in denial. Always someone else's fault. Yellow favorite color.

Navarro: Falling bond yields is another sign that Fed should cut rates

Maybe it has something to do with Brexit and a global slowdown.

GBPCAD picks up some upside momentum; outlook still bearish

Who is 'we'?

German recession fears, should we blame the Chinese car market?

Comforting

Ross: No quid pro quo from China amid decision to postpone tariffs

She who must be obeyed. Working mostly under men I never observed a particular superiority in managerial performance. Rather high performance was a very rare experience whether male, female or other. Achievement is hard to measure objectively in ...

Companies with more female bosses see better stock-market performance, research finds

The Kingdom is not United. Fireworks Nov 5.

Brexit: Hammond says PM's demands 'wreck' chance of new deal

USA takes decisions which predictably cause slowdowns in Asia and Europe, and USA exports, and USA internal economy. Connect the dots for the WH and not the FED. This is easy.

The Path Clear For More Rate Cuts, If You Like That Sort of Thing

There is no inflation in Europe so GDP growth ought to be much faster.

GDP and employment both up by 0.2% in the euro area

Divorcing economic policies from efficient markets (tariffs, sanctions, threats, counter threats, pummelling appointed central bank leaders, walking away from agreements, and so on and so on) all adds up to this - confusion, loss of confidence, ...

Markets Paring Exaggerated Response to US Blink

Nuclear bomb countries presently are: USA, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea. Notable absentees are Germany and Japan - mostly because they were defeated in the last big bash. Military co-operation exists to some extent but ...

Is a China-US cold war inevitable? Chinese analysts say it can’t be ruled out

USA never spies on China.

Intelligence informed us Chinese Govt moving troops to Hong Kong border

'Soars' is a media exaggeration. Traders need to build in north of 10% in a day for this currency pair.

Dollar soars versus yen after U.S. makes trade concessions

SNB has backed dual policy for several years now (currency manipulation and negative official short rates). It also backs free markets and free trade - go figure. EU wants to focus on special relationship post Brexit. CHF not the safe haven it once ...

SNB Set to Follow Currency Interventions With Interest-Rate Cut

Well, what a surprise. No upside in gloating but as all traders/investors must do - look to the opportunities. When politics gets the upperhand over economics a number of useful signals follow. 1. It gets much much harder to pick the short term ...

Global economic outlook darkens amid escalating trade dispute: Ifo

The assumption that China and USA have roughly the same sort of financial system is ludicrous. Also the US system has been very fragile. The obvious China strategy is the one they are following and we should all support them in that endeavour. The ...

Who's manipulating who in this China-US currency war?

The article does not refer to absence of inflation at all which is the centerpiece of the issue. And why is there no inflation? A good lead in what Kiwis are living thru.

Message behind Reserve Bank's latest interest rate drop confusing