Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Economic indicators: The UK releases March labour data and Italy publishes consumer price index figures. Germany’s ZEW issues its latest consumer sentiment survey....
...Prices for Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, slipped 0.2 per cent to $89.95 a barrel....
...The metric measures the price of options that enable investors to profit from swings in the S&P 500....
...The consumer price index rose 4 per cent in the year to March 31, its lowest annual level since June 2021, the Stats NZ agency said. Prices rose 0.6 per cent quarter on quarter....
...Sustained dollar strength could cause problems for countries looking to cut rates without undermining their currencies and accelerating price rises....
...George Steer...
...but “appears to largely reflect higher oil prices rather than a renewed rise in core goods inflation pressures”....
...The moves came after the producer price index, which tracks the prices businesses receive for their goods and services, rose 0.9 per cent year on year in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...Prices for US Treasuries dropped immediately after the data release, pushing yields higher....
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor Find out about our latest stories first — follow FT Weekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Economic data: South Korea publishes its March consumer price index and Australia releases its latest purchasing managers’ index readings....
...Farmers are typically short in the futures market, because they lock in prices for future crops to hedge against price drops....
...The moves came ahead of Wednesday’s release of consumer price inflation data, which will probably influence investor forecasts for the number of interest rate cuts this year....
...In fixed income markets, yields on US Treasuries fell as prices rose. The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasuries slipped 0.06 per cent to 4.36 per cent....
...This article has been amended to make clear that there has been a fall in UK consumer price inflation, not consumer prices...
...Global bond prices rebounded on Thursday from a sell off in the previous session that was triggered by signs of resilient economic activity in the US and a surprise uptick in UK inflation....
...(A quick and dirty note on the Greeks: ETFs selling tons of options necessarily lowers the price — measured in terms of implied volatility — of said options....
...The olive oil price in Spain has more than quadrupled in the past four years as water shortages and punishing heat have led to successive poor harvests....
...Prices then jump above 20 for the October contracts, which are set to expire just after election day on November 5....
...Oil prices on Thursday rose above $81 a barrel for the first time since late December as the threat of Houthi attacks continues to divert tankers and other commercial vessels away from the Red Sea....
...When it comes to share-price performance, at least, companies underwritten by Boustead have a patchy record....
...Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields rose 0.14 percentage points to 4.32 per cent as prices fell....
International Edition