Inflation is tamed at last

Sovereign bond yields are ringing some alarm bells about the UK’s economic and fiscal outlook

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

A month ago, analysts were predicting that S&P 500 earnings growth for the second quarter would come in at a sluggish 5% year-on-year, says Sam Goldfarb in The Wall Street Journal. The spring period w

Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen unusually open debates and divergent views about the path of short-term interest rates among the committee members of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and t

Increasingly, it seems there is no fundamental case for a cut

François Bayrou, the beleaguered French prime minister, has said that the 8 September confidence vote in parliament, which is expected to go against him and his budget proposals, will not decide “the