Inflation

World

December 29, 2025

Global Markets Steady as Central Banks and Geopolitics Compete for Attention

Investors weighed easing inflation signals against persistent geopolitical risks, keeping global equities range-bound. Global financial markets traded cautiously on Thursday as investors balanced signs of cooling inflation in advanced economies with renewed

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Business

February 24, 2026

Tariff Shock Forces U.S. Companies to Reprice, Reroute, and Rethink 2026 Plans

A new round of U.S. global tariffs is rippling through corporate supply chains, raising near-term costs and injecting fresh uncertainty into investment decisions. For many large U.S. companies, the most immediate effect

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Opinion

February 5, 2026

Policy Divergence Is Back—and Markets Are Underpricing the Currency Shock

Europe’s inflation is easing faster than America’s, but investors still seem reluctant to price what a renewed rate-and-growth split could do to stocks, bonds, and the dollar. The global “soft landing” narrative

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Cooling Inflation Is a Reprieve, Not a Bull-Market Blank Check

Softer U.S. price data gives the Federal Reserve room to wait, but investors should resist treating a pause in tightening as the beginning of another easy-money cycle. The latest U.S. inflation numbers

August 13, 2026

Opinion

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Markets Brace for CPI as Oil Keeps Inflation Risk Alive

U.S. equities are entering Wednesday’s session cautiously as investors await July inflation data, with oil near $90 a barrel complicating hopes that easing price pressures will give stocks and bonds room to

August 12, 2026

Markets

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Record Highs Are Concealing a More Fragile Market

Wall Street’s resilience reflects strong earnings and artificial-intelligence optimism, but investors are underpricing the risks posed by expensive valuations, heavy capital spending and renewed energy inflation. The stock market’s latest record-setting advance

August 5, 2026

Opinion

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U.S.-Iran Escalation Pushes Energy Risk Back Into Global Markets

Renewed missile exchanges across the Middle East are raising the threat of a wider conflict, keeping oil prices elevated and complicating the global inflation and interest-rate outlook. A renewed exchange of missile

July 30, 2026

World

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Oil Surges as Middle East Shipping Risks Return

Brent crude approached $100 a barrel as attacks near vital maritime routes revived inflation concerns and forced investors to reconsider the durability of global energy supplies. Oil prices surged Thursday as escalating

July 23, 2026

Commodities

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U.S.-Canada Tariff Escalation Threatens North American Supply Chains

Washington’s new duties on selected Canadian goods raise inflation, investment and growth risks across one of the world’s most integrated trading relationships. The United States has opened a more disruptive phase in

July 21, 2026

World

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The Fed Put Is Not Coming Back Soon

Investors expecting interest-rate relief to rescue every market wobble may be misreading a cycle defined by sticky inflation, geopolitical shocks, and unusually narrow equity leadership. The most important market signal this summer

July 9, 2026

Opinion

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Oil Shock Reopens the Market’s Inflation Trade

A fresh jump in crude prices and bond yields put global equities under pressure, testing investor confidence in the rally led by technology shares. Global markets moved back into defensive mode Wednesday

July 8, 2026

Markets

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Oil Retreat Eases Pressure on Fragile Global Recovery

A sharp fall in crude prices is giving governments, central banks and investors breathing room, but the Middle East truce remains too fragile to erase inflation and growth risks. Oil’s retreat to

June 25, 2026

World

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Oil Retreats as Metals Lose Their Crisis Premium

The reopening of Gulf shipping routes has shifted commodity markets from shortage pricing back toward interest-rate and demand fundamentals. Oil’s sharp reversal this week has reminded investors that geopolitical risk can leave

June 19, 2026

Commodities

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Global Markets Steady as Central Banks and Geopolitics Compete for Attention

Tariff Shock Forces U.S. Companies to Reprice, Reroute, and Rethink 2026 Plans

Policy Divergence Is Back—and Markets Are Underpricing the Currency Shock

Cooling Inflation Is a Reprieve, Not a Bull-Market Blank Check

Markets Brace for CPI as Oil Keeps Inflation Risk Alive

Record Highs Are Concealing a More Fragile Market

U.S.-Iran Escalation Pushes Energy Risk Back Into Global Markets

Oil Surges as Middle East Shipping Risks Return

U.S.-Canada Tariff Escalation Threatens North American Supply Chains

The Fed Put Is Not Coming Back Soon

Oil Shock Reopens the Market’s Inflation Trade

Oil Retreat Eases Pressure on Fragile Global Recovery

Oil Retreats as Metals Lose Their Crisis Premium

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