economy

Oh inflation. For so long, you lay dormant, so much so that policymakers were complaining that there wasn’t enough of it. Last month has seen renewed concerns with...

“Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.”– Bernard Arnault, Founder, Chairman, CEO, LVMH High-end shoppers are ignoring the...

If you added up all of the hikes made by G20 central banks, even including the cuts made by Turkey, Russia, and China, the cumulative total is still 6,700 basis...

There is a whole lot of attention on the upcoming China’s 20th National Party Congress, which is slated to begin October 16. It is the biggest political event on the...

Welcome to this month's trade floor update. The RBA has raised rates for the second month in a row, and we haven’t seen the end of it. It’s a good time to be a bond...

A few weeks ago, it would have been fair to say that we were probably set for a number of interest rate increases this year. Fast forward to where we are now and a...

It has been noted by some economic observers that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has, in 2021, been consistent in one aspect of his predictions about inflation; that he’s...

Corporate capex growth crashed in 2020 for understandable reasons.Commodity capex in particular contracted at a record pace and now its weighting of total S&P500 capex...

On the agenda, we give an overview of how the Coronavirus crisis will have impacted the already fragile economy when all is said and done, addressing the fiscal and...

Defensive, capital-protected, private debt is becoming increasingly appealing to investors as a viable asset class as markets work through the impacts of the COVID-19...