Bloomberg's Money Will Help the Democrats but Unlikely to Win Him the Nomination
Bloomberg has Democratic positions on most issues but the party has no particular fondness for billionaires, even self-made entrepreneurial ones....
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Weekly Oil Views: Crude Collapses in Trade War-Led Market Meltdown
Investors dumped stocks and other risk assets, including oil, and fled into the safe havens of US dollar, the yen and gold last week, as the US and...
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Roaring Labour Market Despite Renewed Signs of Broad-Based Weakness in ISM
The first two data points for April 2019 were contradictory -- with a powerful surge in non-farm payrolls (263,000 net new jobs, far ahead of...
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Inventory-Driven Positive US Growth Surprise Is a Chimera
The advance estimate of US real GDP for 1Q 2019 (reported before export and import data for March are available) showed a surprisingly strong...
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Seismic Shift in Fed's View Driven by Anaemic M2, Implying US$-Weakness and an EM-Positive Year
Fed chairman Jay Powell's extraordinary flip-flops over the past 3 months have left his communication strategy in tatters (unsurprising, given that...
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