inflation

China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001 saw an explosion of Chinese imports into the US (see chart). It is estimated that between 2001 and 2006...

It’s time for a new episode of Stocks Neat, the podcast with nothing watered down.In July’s episode of Stocks Neat, at a more important time than ever, Gareth and I...

After the largest bond market sell-off in 30 years, and with risk markets pricing in a higher probability of recession, global fixed interest and credit markets offer...

The last month has seen a rally in global bond markets, after a protracted period of repricing, US 10-year yields down around 32 points to 2.76% as of 9 August. This...

Fears of a sharp slowdown in global growth have continued to intensify over the past couple of months. And after one of the most significant valuation corrections in...

Last week I spoke with Bennelong Funds Management's Jodie Saw about the impact changing interest rates and inflation can have on infrastructure; and the...

Since bravely declaring that inflation would be “transitory” the Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has been ridiculed for being so wrong. After all,...

This past week has seen Wall Street flooded with earnings releases as the July reporting season hits full flow. A good earnings season with plenty of positive...

While many wait and hope for a Fed pause or pivot - hanging on every piece of text and utterance from the Fed, the real focus should be on inflation expectations....

This wire will provide readers with an "Update in charts" of some of the key components we are monitoring for an easing of inflation.  Although brief, this wire...

Central to the perpetuation of stock market cycles are emotions: excitement, hope, avarice, perhaps some envy. These are ever-present in our makeup, so they alone...

As global markets brace for ongoing uncertainty caused by higher inflation and rising interest rates, bonds offer investors certainty through regular coupon payments...

We investors are constantly searching for the next CSL. After all, if you invested in this growth darling a decade ago, your cash would have increased by almost 616%....

It’s been a tough six months; not only for listed real estate, but for most risk assets as well. Even the natural portfolio risk dampener, sovereign bonds, has...

Consumers around the world are under pressure from rising inflation which erodes the value of real wages and savings. But these effects are not felt equally. Due...

We have discussed for some time now the 40-year deflationary rate cycle that began in 1981 after the US 10yr bond yield peaked at almost 16% and troughed in the depths...

The sharp rise in long bond yields from 1.5% at the beginning of the year to 3.6% in June continued to create headwinds for long-duration assets such as REITs. The...

As stocks have wobbled, investors have bemoaned having no place to hide – not even in gold. June alone saw the market fall a whopping 8.97%. However, short positions...

I grew up in the 1970s and it was fun – Abba, Elvis, Wings, JPY, flares, and cool cars. But economically it was a mess. Inflation surged and so did unemployment and...

Perpetual’s Vince Pezzullo sincerely hopes financial markets aren't heading for a repeat of the 1970s - or the 1990s - as he explained in the latest episode of...