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Euro Area Inflation Confirmed at 2.9 Percent, and Energy Supplied a Third of It
Euro area annual inflation was confirmed at 2.9 percent in July, up from 2.8 percent in June and 2.0 percent in July…
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China Has Now Held Its Benchmark Lending Rates for Fifteen Straight Months
China left both of its benchmark lending rates unchanged this morning. The one-year loan prime rate stayed at 3.00 percent and the…
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Kuwait’s Five-Year Borrowing Cost Has Fallen 150 Basis Points in a Year While Policy Rates Fell 50
The Central Bank of Kuwait sold 100 million dinars of five-year paper on 19 August at a uniform yield of 3.3750 percent.…
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Japan’s Exports Rose 23 Percent in July. The Deficit Still Quadrupled.
Japan exported 11.51 trillion yen of goods in July, a rise of 23.2 percent on the same month a year earlier. It…
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China Is Still Germany’s Largest Trading Partner, and the Reason Is on the Import Side
China remained Germany's largest trading partner in the first half of 2026, with a trade volume of 125.5 billion euros, ahead of…
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Gold Rose From 7.9 to 28.9 Percent of Qatar’s Reserves in Four Years
Qatar Central Bank released its Annual Report for 2025 today, and the most striking figure in it is not a growth rate…
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Market Wrap US-Europe 19 August: Treasury Buybacks Push 30 Year Yield Down 9 Basis Points
Wall Street snapped its three-session slide on Wednesday after the US Treasury Department said it would at least double the size of…
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US Debt Passed 40 Trillion Dollars, and the Latest Five Trillion Took 25 Months
Total United States public debt outstanding closed at 40.047 trillion dollars on 18 August, the first reading above 40 trillion in the…
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The SEC Has Proposed Crypto Fundraising Exemptions at 5, 20 and 75 Million Dollars, but Neither the Rule Nor the Senate Bill Is Final
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a framework titled Regulation Crypto Assets on 18 August, creating exemptions from securities registration…
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Commodities Wrap 19 August: Metals Roar Back as Platinum Jumps 4.4 Percent
Wednesday sharply reversed Tuesday's metals rout: the complex that broke a day earlier roared back as long-term US yields fell and the…
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Markets Fully Price a September Fed Rise. The Fed’s Own Survey Sees No Move Until 2028.
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee's 28 and 29 July meeting, released on 19 August, record a gap between what…
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Gold Rose 67 Percent, Then Fell 26. The War Explains Only Half of It.
Gold set a record of 5,405 dollars an ounce on the London benchmark on 29 January 2026, then fell to 4,001.80 by…
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