Weekly Selections from Monthly Barometer
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Martin Wolf, “Time for Draghi to Open the Sluice” (Financial Times, May 13, 2014 – metered paywall) The FT’s columnist observes that the Eurozone’s recovery in confidence is encouraging, but too...Weekly Market Update
Market Action A positive start to equities this week quickly reversed course by the time markets opened on Wednesday. Low US Retail Sales prefaced poor data from China and Australia and contraction in Europe. In addition private forecasters expect US Q1 GDP growth to...Weekly Selections from Monthly Barometer
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Room for Debate: “How to Regulate Disruption” (The New York Times, May 6, 2014 – metered paywall) As a growing number of apps and online services give consumers more direct control over their choices,...Weekly Market Update
Market Action Poor international data inspired a downward start this past week. PMI data from China indicated contraction while escalating Ukrainian instability and more punitive sanctions coming from Europe against Russia spooked equities A number of high profile...Weekly Selections from Monthly Barometer
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Raghuram Rajan, “Containing Competitive Monetary Easing” (Project Syndicate, April 28, 2014) This is an article based on a speech that the governor of the Reserve Bank of India gave on the fringe of...Sign Up for Our Publications
