Feng Li/Getty Images News As international capital is leaving China, Beijing is aiming to prevent a spike in outflows by stimulating the economy to attract investors and trying to improve ties with Western governments to minimize…
In February 2023, we wrote this article. The article walks through Michael Kantrowitz’s HOPE model. HOPE, or Housing, New Orders (ISM), Corporate Profits, and Employment, provides a handy acronym to track parts of the economy that are…
Awareness and media recall
68% of respondents recall having recently obtained news about the European Union via either press, internet, television or radio - with considerable variation across Member States, between 49% in France and 87%…
Democrats should start worrying about the level of debt and the increasing deficit. I previously discussed this issue when President Obama held the White House, when Marshall Auerback, via the Nation, wrote:
“Delivering on big…
Stocks finished flat yesterday, following the slightly stronger-than-expected and weaker data. Overall, yields and the dollar rose, which helped hold the to a gain of only 16 bps.
Additionally, we continue to see yield curve…
The event came under the spotlight when former Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticised the Privileges Committee ahead of its damning Partygate report and accused Sir Bernard Jenkin, a member of the committee, of "monstrous hypocrisy" for…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime…
US economic activity in the fourth quarter remains set for a sharp slowdown vs. , but the pace of expected growth has strengthened recently, based on updated nowcasts.
Output for Q4 is estimated at 2.0%, based on the median…