Category 4 hurricane Ida set to bear down on US gulf coast Ida is set to be one of the largest storms to ever hit the US Hurricane Ida is hours away from making landfall on the coast of Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane.
OPEC+ could reconsider plans to add more oil barrels this week The next OPEC+ meeting is Sept 1 OPEC+ had planned to be on auto-pilot through year-end, adding an additional 400K per month as they slowly bring back idled production.
Treasury Demand Shows Resilience as Fed Signals Bond-Buying Pullback Investors keep buying U.S. Treasury securities, defying predictions for a broad selloff that would send bond yields back to their March highs.
Suits you sir? Not anymore at some M＆S stores The retailer no longer sells men's suits at more than half of its large stores as tastes turn casual.
BigTech – Replacing Banks QUESTION: Can you explain how using Jack Dorsey’s financial tools are another way Americans are surrendering their freedoms. Although the transaction fees are a fraction of banks and the time duration are almost instant.
Scarce Credit Hinders Homeownership on Tribal Land It takes patience and persistence to write a mortgage on Native American reservations, and most lenders don’t even attempt it.
Long live the labour shortages The pandemic disruption may be igniting a productivity boom
Nasdaq 100 Hits Record High as Powell Signals Tapering by Year End Tech stocks extended higher into the record territory even though Fed Chair Jerome Powell prepared the markets for the Fed tapering. Interest rate hikes are likely to be far away, alleviating press...
Hispanics and White Criminality are Converging Keith Humphreys has a good post at the excellent Slow Boring on how Hispanics and White statistics on crime are converging. An otherwise dull new government report on incarceration contains a startling fact: Hispanics are slightly less likely to be jailed than whites.
UK retail trade signals prospect of higher food prices BRC warns rising wages and costs will bring long period of subdued prices to an end
China Curbs Steel Output, but Familiar Economic Pressures Test Its Mettle A government-ordered drop in steel output handed Beijing a global showcase for advancing climate goals and controlling commodity markets. But a brewing economic slowdown is testing its will to sustain the cuts.
Mission and Money Clash in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Venture Capital Ambitions Though their tax-exempt status is predicated on charitable efforts, nonprofit health systems rarely put humanitarian goals first when selecting investments.
Stock Market Turns Cautious as 'Defensive' Shares Surge Utilities and healthcare are among the best-performing groups in the S&P 500 so far this quarter, noteworthy because investors typically pile into those types of stocks when they are expecting the outlook to darken.
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Will eurozone inflation continue rising? Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
Against family and entourage? Many individuals travel between countries as part of their professional routines. How do they perform during those short trips abroad? To begin to answer this question, I analyzed the outcomes of over 5 million chess games played around the world.
Mexican Peso Forecast: Powell Paves the Way for USD/MXN Weakness in the Near Term The Fed's dovish taper tone at the Jackson Hole Symposium is likely to depress US treasury rates and weigh on USD/MXN in the near term as traders seek to exploit higher yields in EMFX.
Coronavirus - Singapore hits 80% fully vaccinated. Sydney hits 1200+ new cases in a day. Singapore has hit its 80% fully inoculated target (the population of Singapore is 5.7 million people). Singaporean authorities have previously said they'll be further easing COVID-19 restrictions after hitting the 80% milestone.
This piece is proving to have legs We develop a framework to theoretically and empirically analyze the fluctuations of the aggregate stock market. Households allocate capital to institutions, which are fairly constrained, for example operating with a mandate to maintain a fixed equity share or with moderate scope for variation in response to changing market conditions.
EUR/USD Forecast: Euro Runs into Resistance, More Gains Ahead? Powell inspired lift for EUR/USD, eyes on key US data.
More Saturday assorted links 1. Papua New Guinea fact of the day. 2. Progress Studies in San Francisco. What it looks like “on the street.” 3. “But in Stockholm, the average waiting time for a rent-controlled property is now nine years, says the city’s housing agency Bostadsförmedlingen, up from around five years a decade ago.”
Covid: Report finds big rises in garden furniture prices Consumer group Which? says one retailer raised the price of a shed by 155% during the past two years.
The Third Amendment You don’t hear people discuss the 3rd Amendment to the US Constitution as often as some of the other amendments: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.