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2 weeks ago |
fa-mag.com | Marcus Ashworth
The dollar is supposed to be the natural haven in times of global stress, yet the lack of flows into U.S. assets after Israel's airstrikes on Iran is telling. The dollar index hit a three-year low Thursday before the military strikes, but that it's rebounded only about 0.5% subsequently suggests the 10% loss of relative value this year of the greenback to other major currencies may persist. Gold and oil both rose sharply so it's not that geopolitical risk doesn't matter.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Marcus Ashworth
Smoke rises from a location allegedly targeted in Israel's wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran, on early morning of June 13, 2025. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The dollar is supposed to be the natural haven in times of global stress, yet the lack of flows into US assets after Israel's airstrikes on Iran is telling.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Marcus Ashworth
The Swiss National Bank is edging closer to implementing negative interest rates as it attempts to stave off deflation. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- As economists debate whether trade wars will stoke inflation as companies raise prices or produce disinflation by crimping growth, one country is already contending with the consequences of slowing inflation.
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3 weeks ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Marcus Ashworth
The secret of postwar UK politics has been to keep house prices rising so middle-class voters feel wealthier. This most basic of UK electoral rules — it’s the housing economy, stupid — has escaped Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, whose tax policy has smothered an already struggling market.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Marcus Ashworth
Apartment blocks in the St. John's Wood district of London. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The secret of postwar UK politics has been to keep house prices rising so middle-class voters feel wealthier. This most basic of UK electoral rules — it's the housing economy, stupid — has escaped Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, whose tax policy has smothered an already struggling market.
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no it doesn’t. if this gets repeated ad nauseam there shall have to be words. stern ones too. i note Starmer said it in pmqs which Kemi didn’t pick up on. that’s egregious enough but Reeves zero excuses
@Frencheconomics The bond market doesn't lie https://t.co/zFKDHsVLDx
Tariffs are deflationary for the exporting country - broadly. Europe is heading below target quite rapidly before the pinch is really on.Negative Swiss rates should set alarm bells ringing in the euro zone about the risks of deflation reappearing, https://t.co/f8MN99tuKY
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