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Ted Pick takes charge of Morgan Stanley
WHEN JAMES GORMAN took the helm of Morgan Stanley it was barely afloat. His tenure as the bank’s chief executive…
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Canada’s inflation accelerated to 3.4% in December
December’s Consumer Price Index report for Canada is another bump in the road in the path toward price stability. The…
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How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi?
In the second week of 2024 business leaders descended on Gujarat, the home state of Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister.…
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Sticky service and housing prices illustrate the difficult last mile in inflation fight
The December Consumer Price Index captures both the broader disinflation taking place inside the goods sector and the persistent inflation…
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Rate normalization and the return of risk
Financial markets had a difficult start to the year after an exuberant end to last year. The yield on 10-year…
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Bill Ackman provides a lesson in activist investing
As with every skirmish in America’s culture wars, how you view the ousting of Harvard University’s president has much to…
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Will spiking shipping costs cause inflation to surge?
When economists talk about bottlenecks, they typically refer to points in a supply chain that slow down production. The global…
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A guide to the Chinese Communist Party’s economic jargon
A new Communist Party slogan was born on January 9th. The phrase, which appeared on the front page of the…
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Has Team Transitory really won America’s inflation debate?
In late 2021 Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, called for the retirement of “transitory” as a description for…
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Xi Jinping risks setting off another trade war
China’s leaders are obsessed with lithium-ion batteries, electric cars and solar panels. These sorts of technologies will, Xi Jinping has…
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