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    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Charlie Penner
      Exxon and Chevron deals point to Big Oil’s needed shift

      Acquisitions will allow more room to manoeuvre if energy transition picks up pace

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    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Michaela Walker
      UK fund managers are bracing for ‘anti-greenwashing’ rules

      FCA likely to set a higher bar for funds than the EU and the US

      The regime is intended to address the FCA’s concern that trust in the market is being eroded by firms making ‘exaggerated claims’.
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Michael Pettis
      The global constraints to Chinese growth

      Many more years of high economic expansion are only possible if the country restructures to boost domestic consumption

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    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Mohamed El-Erian
      The big central banks need to use their time outs wisely

      Policymakers should go well beyond data analysis in looking to the future

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    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Jason Cummins
      Bond yields signal the end of the new normal

      We are entering an era of higher and more volatile inflation, leading to broad changes in the investing landscape

      Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Gerry Fowler
      The coming shift in European stocks

      Weaker profit margins and higher rates will mean investors will prioritise higher quality companies

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    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Fabio Panetta
      The world needs a better cross-border payments network

      Linking the multitude of systems would make transferring money cheaper, faster and more transparent

    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Jacques de Larosière
      It’s time to tackle Europe’s economic and monetary slippage

      EU member states and the European Commission must demonstrate will for corrective action

    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Peter Kinsella
      The era of relentless Swiss franc appreciation is coming to an end

      If the risk of wider regional conflict over Gaza recedes, the currency’s high valuation is unlikely to be sustained

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    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      David Sheppard
      Oil megadeals usher in an age of energy uncertainty

      Those betting transactions by Chevron and ExxonMobil signal robust demand growth may want to think twice

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    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Tomasz Wieladek
      A big problem looming for bond markets

      Issuance is rising just as price-insensitive buying by central banks is being scaled back

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    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Aswath Damodaran
      ESG is beyond redemption: may it RIP

      The investing framework is now facing a mountain of troubles, almost all of them of its own making

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    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Jack Inglis
      Back to the analogue age: the SEC’s threat to fund management

      Watchdog’s proposed curbs on AI and technology will increase costs and reduce choice for investors

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    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Toby Nangle
      Less is more when it comes to strategic asset allocation

      As a JPMorgan strategist argued recently, complexity is both pointless and counterproductive

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    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Mohamed El-Erian
      US bond market is losing its strategic footing

      Unusual volatility in yields points to longer-term challenges for most influential segment of world’s financial markets

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    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Rebecca Patterson
      The dollar has joined the commodity currency club

      A change in the greenback’s historical relationship with oil is increasingly rippling through economies and markets

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    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Richard Barwell
      Central banks still need to justify the case for ‘higher for longer’ rates

      Forward guidance without a rationale may not anchor monetary policy expectations for long

    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Edwin Truman
      Another stalemate on IMF quotas is not acceptable

      Failure to strike a deal would imperil the status of the central institution of the global monetary system

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    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Claudia Sahm
      The Fed tool that is having a powerful impact

      Central bank’s Summary of Economic Projections may have spurred recent rises in Treasury yields

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    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Karen Ward
      Investors should fight the temptation of cash

      High short-term interest rates are exacerbating a natural desire to hunker down but there are better options

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    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Mohamed El-Erian
      The US may no longer avoid a recession

      The economy is likely to weaken as markets internalise the significant likelihood that rates will stay higher for longer

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    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Edward Yardeni
      The bond vigilantes are back

      Markets are challenging Janet Yellen’s policies by raising bond yields to levels that threaten to create a debt crunch

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    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Michelle Wiese Bockmann
      To tackle Putin’s dark oil fleet, enforcement needs to be stepped up

      Governments have options to give a price cap on Russian exports more teeth

    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Satyajit Das
      Currency wars are not what they used to be

      The impact of devaluations on trade, corporate earnings, prices and capital flows might now be more nuanced

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    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      César Pérez Ruiz
      From black to red zero in Germany? Don’t bank on it

      Berlin has tightened deficit discipline as ‘bond vigilantes’ return

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