John Authers
Senior Editor at Bloomberg News
Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | John Authers
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. There is no peace in the trade conflict, but there is something that might be called a ceasefire. That permitted some degree of normality in Monday trading, with US stocks ticking up (without a full-throated relief rally), while 10-year Treasury yields looked a lot less yippy, dropping 12 basis points. But the most intriguing move came in Germany, where bund yields are back where they were on the morning of March 4:
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news.bloomberglaw.com | John Authers
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. Bonds had a relief rally and so — much less impressively — have stocks. German bunds have fully recovered from their big March selloff. Strategists are still desperately marking down their targets for the year. Rheinmetall AG is at a new high, up 200% since the US election. The world’s best-performing stock exchange this year is Ghana!AND: More detectives, from Troubles-era Ulster to fin-de-siecle Vienna.
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bloomberg.com | John Authers
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. This week is when the world’s Jews gather together to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt in a highly stylized meal known as a seder. Jesus’ Last Supper was a seder, so it’s a ritual that reverberates throughout the world’s great monotheistic religions.
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bloomberg.com | John Authers
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. Irony of ironies. On a day when the battle to save the value of the dollar in the pockets of US consumers seemed finally to be won, its value to everyone else sank. Inflation is yesterday’s news, it appears, and the currency’s fate is now driven by confidence and the uncertainties surrounding tariffs that are yet to affect prices.
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bloomberg.com | John Authers
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. In one of the most lucrative social media posts of all time, Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon on Truth Social that he was postponing “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days for everyone except China. Minutes earlier he had posted this:
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China's bazooka doesn't look big enough to arrest the crisis in its stock markets, @johnauthers says. There are lessons in overconfidence for India https://t.co/aOzvgRhztc
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RT @markets: The fall in inflation has stalled, says @johnauthers, leaving the Fed little reason to start early rate cuts. And yet, the mar…
