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...This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns Two hardened political reporters dissect the 2020 presidential campaign and the subsequent January...
...The central bank’s president told a conference of ECB watchers in Frankfurt that continued high growth in wages and weak productivity would lead services inflation “to remain elevated for most of this year...
...However, Fed watchers do not always buy the projections. At the start of the year, the dot pots showed US rate-setters expected to cut rates three times over 2024....
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...Lagarde told a conference of ECB watchers in Frankfurt on Wednesday that continued high wage growth and weak productivity in the eurozone meant services inflation was expected “to remain elevated for most...
...Numbers news Russia’s growth is slowing and production volumes in the main sectors may even have fallen slightly, estimate the Bank of Finland’s Russia-watchers....
...The decision makers at the European Central Bank have been doing precisely that in recent speeches and comments, not least at last week’s “ECB and Its Watchers” conference (programme and links to the speeches...
...This is a big change and it has some market watchers worried. Are markets really markets if everyone is just buying the index?...
...However, bank-watchers believe the ECB, led by president Christine Lagarde, will still leave monetary policy on hold — with the deposit rate at a record high of 4 per cent and its vast bond portfolio slowly...
...Many of the territory’s Catholics are pro-democracy, said a Catholic researcher and longtime church-watcher in the city....
...To mark the launch of a new weekly FT newsletter, Chris Giles gathered with Colby Smith in DC, Martin Arnold in Frankfurt and Claire Jones in London for a subscriber-exclusive webinar to discuss central...
...Thomas Jordan, Swiss National Bank governing board chair, speaks at its annual watchers’ conference. Economic indicators: Nationwide issues October housing price index for the UK....
...We marked the launch with a webinar featuring some of the FT’s best central bank watchers, and me. Subscribers can watch it here....
...Now as a longtime Stones watcher, I doubt that call took place....
...This, by Martin Sandbu, on the rise (and recent reputational hit) to the philosophy of effective altruism is worth a read....
...I’m Tej Parikh, the FT’s economics leader writer, and I am standing in for Martin Sandbu, who is away this week....
...But veteran BoJ-watchers warned against concluding that the central bank was on the brink of tightening....
...However, other ECB watchers believe only one more rate rise is likely after this week as the debate on the trade-offs between inflation and growth becomes more balanced....
...This Budget had few surprises and (as Martin Wolf sets out masterfully here) was a grim advert for the UK’s pinball policymaking machine....
...The event is an example of global “shifting power structures”, said Sir Martin Sorrell, who runs the digital marketing company S4 Capital and travelled to Hong Kong for the FII conference....
...This piece also reminded me of a recent Martin Wolf essay that put demographics on a list of the megatrends that investors should spend more time thinking about....
...Martin Arnold Will UK wage growth add to inflationary pressures?...
...If you are a close watcher of the markets, this week matters. This is Unhedged, the markets and finance show from the Financial Times and Pushkin....
...Join Martin Wolf, FT China watchers and UBS China economist Tao Wang for a subscriber-only webinar on China’s economic slowdown tomorrow at 11am BST. Register for free here. Five more top stories 1....
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