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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      William Cohan
      The Spac bubble and bust is one for the history books

      Collective amnesia is a reminder of the risks of investments offering an illusory prospect of easy wealth

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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Takashi Miwa
      The Bank of Japan is subtly shifting approach

      The central bank is nearing the end of its yield curve control policy

      A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Rebecca Patterson
      Falling inflation might not dent gold’s rally

      Precious metal can gain even if the US economy heads to a soft landing

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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Mohamed El-Erian
      The risks of tax cuts in Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement

      UK chancellor should direct more resources to AI, life sciences and the green energy transition

      UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Holden Spaht
      Private equity’s new financial engineering brings risks

      NAV loans can buy time but cannot stop the inevitable if businesses have not improved

      Dollar bill montage
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Matt King
      The counterintuitive truth about deficits for bond investors

      Most of the time, higher government debt levels have been associated with lower yields, not higher

      Montage showing logos of Tokyo Bank and the European Central Bank, with Federal Reserve building in foreground
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Tej Parikh
      Central banks’ trillion-dollar problem

      Bloated balance sheets need to come down without endangering financial stability

      Federal Reserve building during a renovation in Washington
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Jumana Saleheen
      Central banks need to be clearer on communication

      It is not just what central banks say, but also how they say it

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    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Julia Coronado
      The return of productivity gains for the US economy

      If companies reap anything close to a historical average return on recent investments, we are likely to see an improving trend

    • 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

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    • 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

      The white cross of the Swiss national flag sits on 50, 20 and 10 Swiss franc banknotes against a black background
    • 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

      Tug boats transport a tension-leg oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico
    • 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

      Montage of logos for Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan and Bank of England
    • 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

      Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler
    • 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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