Abenomics appears to be driving Japan out of 15 years of deflation, but broad-based demand-led recovery has still to take firm hold.
Affirming Abenomics in the nuances of Japan’s recovery
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Taming inflation, supporting real now trump bolstering growth for Brazil
Hopes of restoring growth to Latin America’s largest economy take second billing to taming consumer price inflation and bolstering a tumbling currency
The moderately safe-haven dollar in one chart
The dollar remains the flee-to currency in times of geopolitical stress, even if it isn’t quite the safe haven it once was.
Taper talk meets data reality
The emphasis on the taper by the Fed is puzzling if you only take into account what the central bank actually says, and compare it to the data the economy is actually recording.
The potash pawn
The business dispute roiling the $20 billion global potash market is fast becoming a diplomatic power play between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, “Europe’s last dictator.”
BATS-Direct Edge merger is all about trading costs
Joe Ratterman, CEO of BATS Global Markets. Photo Credit: Reuters/Natalie Behring
Most mergers, a plethora of academic studies show, end up failing to create shareholder value. The proposed tie-up between stock-exchange operators BATS Global and Direct Edge is likely to be an exception that proves that rule.
Emerging markets left to fend for their own
As capital flees emerging markets in anticipation of the U.S. Fed scaling back its stimulus, hopes for international coordination of monetary policy to contain the currency volatility that is causing are ebbing too.
Rising temperatures, rising food prices
Scientists expect crop-shrinking heat waves to become part of the agricultural landscape.
Stabilizing the high-tech stock trading ecosystem
The latest trading glitch on Nasdaq highlights the need for mandated minimally acceptable standards of technological stability.
South Africa’s strikes and the risk of stagflation
The wave of labor unrest engulfing the country won’t do anything to stop South Africa’s economic underperformance.
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