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ING’s Chief Economist for Greater China, Lynn Song, notes that China’s CPI inflation eased to 1.0% year-on-year after Lunar New Year, while PPI turned positive for the first time since 2022. The report highlights rising energy and transportation fuel costs, suggesting further upside for inflation and a gradual shift away from entrenched deflationary expectations in China.Energy-driven price pressures support reflation”The substantive price drops are in line with China’s typical seasonality around the Lunar New Year holiday. More importantly for the months ahead, we are starting to see the impact of higher energy prices in the data. The subcategory for transportation…
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is not an aberration from the new geopolitical order — it is an expression of it and investors need to adjust to this fast, says a Nuveen strategist.
Highlights include Trump’s Iran deadline, US CPI, PCE, ISM Services PMI, FOMC Minutes, RBNZ and OPEC+ Iran International Crisis MON: Holiday: Easter Monday, Canadian Services/Composite PMI (Mar), US ISM Services (Mar), Australian Services/Composite PMI Final (Mar), Japanese Household Spending (Feb) TUE: EIA STEO (Apr), EZ/UK Services/Composite PMI Final (Mar), US ADP Employment Change Weekly, US Durable Goods Orders (Feb), US RCM/TIPP Economic Optimism Index (Apr), US Consumer Inflation Expectations (Mar) WED: FOMC Minutes (Mar), RBNZ Policy Announcement (Apr), RBI Policy Announcement (Apr), Australian NAB Business Confidence (Mar), Japanese Economy Watchers Survey (Mar), German Factory Orders (Feb), UK Halifax House…
The war with Iran will have a lingering economic fallout.
Deutsche Bank’s Sanjay Raja expects UK GDP to rebound by 0.2% m-o-m in February after a flat January, with balanced risks around the nowcast. The bank’s models also point to a possible upward revision to January. However, Deutsche Bank projects Q2-26 GDP growth slowing to 0.2% q-o-q and sees 2026 GDP at just 0.7%, with downside risks.Nowcast signals modest early-2026 recovery”The January GDP report disappointed – plain and simple. With the economy stagnating to start the year, we expect a rebound in February. We don’t discount an upward revision to January GDP either.””Our nowcast models point to both a potential…
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Stop Letting Hope Control Your Trades Trading and Risk Management Have you ever held onto a losing trade, hoping it would return to breakeven?Or skipped placing a stop-loss, hoping the market will reverse in your favor? Have you hedged a losing position, hoping to recover losses?Or traded purely on gut instinct, hoping the market would prove you right? If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alonebut it’s also one of the fastest ways to lose money in trading. Why Hope Is a Liability in Trading Hope is a natural human emotion. In everyday life, it can be positive…
U.S. stock futures jumped and oil prices fell on Tuesday evening, after President Donald Trump announced a two-week-long cease-fire deal with Iran that would delay a planned American bombing assault on the country and make more time for negotiations between the two sides.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Tuesday that safe passage of Hormuz will be possible for two weeks. This statement came after US President Donald Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Key quotesIf attacks are halted, forces will stop actions.Safe passage of Hormuz will be possible for 2 weeks.Iran will halt attacks provided attacks against it cease.Market reactionCrude oil prices attract some sellers following this headline. At the time of writing, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is down 14.15% on the day at $88.85 WTI Oil FAQs WTI Oil is a type of Crude Oil sold on international…
Pershing Square has proposed a merger to address the stock’s “underperformance.”