So, we know that the April Liberation Day provoked an enormous of front-loading of inventory before TACO rescinded, reduced or delayed some threats of tariffs. Added to which the consumer may have thought twice about making those planned purchases, ...

US Producer Price Index - June 2025

Explain how so. I'm intrigued if you think that any said that this particular datapoint at this particular time would be a specific number.

US Producer Price Index - June 2025

Definitely a strong possibility. CEO's bonuses are always a motivator.

US Producer Price Index - June 2025

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Fed's Logan: My base case is that we'll need to keep interest rates modestly restrictive for...

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Consumer price inflation, UK: June 2025

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France to double defense spending to €64B by 2027

You're certainly not afraid of using hyperbole: "everyone" and "every". Para #1: For now the borders may well have been "closed" and extraditions without due process may have gone wild. Only time will tell whether stopping the process that had ...

US Treasury posts unexpected surplus in June as tariff receipts surge

This Trump appointee is merely applying the Trump team strategy of ratcheting up pressure on Powell, whether fake or real, as Trump knows he can't dismiss him directly, really. If they engineered a dismissal before his term ends the bond vigilantes ...

FHFA Pulte: I'm encouraged by reports that Jerome Powell is considering resigning

The only remarkable thing about this figure is that it's unremarkable (or remarkably consistent). They're almost like official Chinese data releases. The nature of this data is as a lagging indicator, of course.

US Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims

You weren't alone!

Trump to impose 25% tariff on goods from Japan, South Korea on August 1st

Well, I'd say that he probably knows that and was able to convince his party it was essential to toe that line to get voted in. But the edges blur when you have to try to keep a large majority party in line (by democratic means). After the ...

ADP US National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Shed 33,000 Jobs in June; Annual...

Earlier double-whammy of suspicion that the Chancellor might resign and the fact that the PM has mentioned "taxes may have to rise" whilst being questionned in Parliament due to the recent climbdown on welfare budget cost-cutting. The Chancellor has ...

ADP US National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Shed 33,000 Jobs in June; Annual...

IF (IF!) the Chancellor were to resign, when she is seen as a relative centrist in a socialist government, then the markets, which naturally dislike uncertainty, would also expect a less-centrist replacement, which would also unnerve the markets ...

Chancellor Reeves has not resigned. A spokesman for Reeves said, of her upset: “it’s a...

Umm, because the FED Committee has decided not to?

Trump: Signed deal with China yesterday

. . . of, what?

Iran signals it wants to de-escalate hostilities with Israel - WSJ Citing Officials

With each pronouncement you're revealing that you haven't cottoned on to the hard-and-fast facts required to make headway. A casino is never operating on a 50:50 basis. It's nearer the 90:10 mark. You still have much learning to do, even after 20 ...

ECB’s Muller: Inflation Likely To Stay Around 2% In Near Future

I hear your pain but what you may have done is to try to fast-track your trading rather than taking the necessary time to do thorough R&D for the 90:10 rules in whatever theatre you're trying to operate. That can only start when you can be truly ...

ECB’s Muller: Inflation Likely To Stay Around 2% In Near Future

I can think of several reasons but a generalisation might be that the Chaos Monkey hasn't got time to be patient and logical.

China seems to be in the 'driver's seat' in US trade negotiations

Quite. Even then the businesses that scraped by, including Trump Media, were saved not by recognised Western Banks or Investors but by loans and purchases from opaque Russian Oligarch organisations.

Trumpcession odds are fading

And the sweepstake is open as to how many minutes after 1400 hrs EDT, Trump outs a tirade against Powell.

Minutes of Fed’s May meeting likely to show officials grappling with uncertainty