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

January 1, 2026

Markets Are Adjusting to a World of Fewer Rate Cuts

Investors are recalibrating expectations as resilient growth and sticky inflation push monetary easing further into the future. For much of the past year, global markets have traded on the assumption that interest

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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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Oil Relief Gives Global Markets a Fragile Reprieve

A tentative U.S.-Iran agreement has eased immediate energy-market pressure, but investors remain focused on whether lower oil prices can cool inflation without masking deeper global-growth risks. Global markets entered Wednesday with a

June 17, 2026

World

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Markets Need More Than Cheaper Oil

A geopolitical relief rally can buy investors time, but it cannot replace earnings discipline, valuation restraint, or a credible inflation path. The sudden improvement in global risk appetite has given investors the

June 15, 2026

Opinion

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Oil Shock Puts Commodities Back at Center of Inflation Trade

A jump in crude prices after Iran’s move to restrict Strait of Hormuz traffic is testing whether investors can absorb another supply shock without reigniting broad inflation pressure. Crude oil returned to

June 11, 2026

Commodities

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Oil Relief Rally Tests Fragile Global Confidence

A pullback in crude prices offered investors a pause from Middle East-driven inflation fears, but global markets remain exposed to energy shocks, policy uncertainty, and uneven growth. Global markets found temporary relief

June 9, 2026

World

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Oil Shock Tests Global Rally as Asia’s Chip Boom Defies Geopolitical Risk

A fresh rise in crude prices and renewed Middle East tensions are forcing investors to weigh inflation risk against a still-powerful global technology rally. Global markets entered June with an uneasy split

June 1, 2026

World

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The AI Rally Needs More Than Easy Money

Investors are right to admire the durability of the technology-led bull market, but wrong to assume it can remain immune to inflation, oil shocks and higher-for-longer interest rates. The central question for

May 28, 2026

Opinion

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Oil’s Iran Premium Returns to Commodities Markets

Fresh Middle East escalation pushed energy back to the center of the commodities trade, reviving inflation concerns while gold and industrial metals sent more mixed signals. Oil reasserted itself as the market’s

May 26, 2026

Commodities

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Oil Shock Keeps Global Rally on Uneasy Footing

Global stocks advanced as investors weighed tentative U.S.-Iran diplomacy against the inflationary threat of elevated crude prices and fragile growth across Europe and Asia. Global markets ended the week with a familiar

May 22, 2026

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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

Markets Are Adjusting to a World of Fewer Rate Cuts

Oil Retreat Eases Pressure on Fragile Global Recovery

Oil Retreats as Metals Lose Their Crisis Premium

Oil Relief Gives Global Markets a Fragile Reprieve

Markets Need More Than Cheaper Oil

Oil Shock Puts Commodities Back at Center of Inflation Trade

Oil Relief Rally Tests Fragile Global Confidence

Oil Shock Tests Global Rally as Asia’s Chip Boom Defies Geopolitical Risk

The AI Rally Needs More Than Easy Money

Oil’s Iran Premium Returns to Commodities Markets

Oil Shock Keeps Global Rally on Uneasy Footing

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