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Beijing's efforts to internationalise the yuan are bearing fruit. The United States cannot overestimate the consequences of losing the dollar's status as a reserve currency

The Bank of Japan's Tankan survey shows a tightening labour market, stronger service sentiment and a weaker manufacturing sector. Still waiting for 'monetary normalisation'

USA: ISM manufacturing PMI index dropped deeper into the contraction zone - and Opec+ throws a spanner into the works

President Xi Jinping is no longer trying to hide where China is headed. History shows that it pays to listen to authoritarian leaders

Germany: Retail sales in real terms plunge, as workers do not care about falling annual inflation. Workers need falling consumer prices or higher wages

Eurozone: Preliminary reports show a sharp decline in the inflation rate. Nonetheless, the ECB does not base monetary policy on 'base effects'. Policy bias remains hawkish

EU survey shows lacklustre growth, no further improvement in CPI inflation, but falling factory gate price pressure - and a tight labour market

Germany and France: Consumer surveys underscore the challenges facing the ECB. Wage increase calls are supported by demographic 'tailwind'

Sweden: A small bounce in business and consumer sentiment, but households' inflation assessment skyrockets to a new all-time high

France: Insee business survey shows lacklustre growth - and sticky prices. ECB says tightening will continue

Bank deposit outflows accelerated in the Eurozone in February. Commercial banks will be forced to raise deposit rates

Germany: IFO survey significantly reduces the risk of 'recession' - so far

Eurozone: ECB's Monetary Development shows tightening conditions - but the ECB is expected to stay the course of 'overkilling' the economy

Japan: The quality of being 'long the yen' - even without monetary tightening

USA: The banking crisis and Wall Street investors distract the Federal Reserve, but Chairman Powell will stay the course

A short note on the 'frenemies meeting' in Moscow: Deglobalisation, RMB internationalisation and more geopolitical tensions confirmed

Britain: Inflation will not go away as central banks face a totally different environment than in 2008

The big difference between the '2008 bank run' and today: There is political and public support  to rescue the banking system - but not for bailing out bank shares

US existing home sales jumped much-faster-than-expected in February - house prices dropped for the first time since 2012

Germany: Factory gates inflation declines, but the absolute level of producer prices is still 50% higher than in 2019 - and the next inflation leg has already hit the shore

China cuts the reserve requirement ratio. The economy needs growth drivers. Xi Jinping could act as a peacemaker in Europe if China benefits. China and USA could benefit

Eurozone: Labour costs jumped in the last quarter of 2022. Q1 will be even stronger as the EU faces a secular labour supply problem

Xi Jinping as peacemaker in Europe? Yes, if China benefits

China: House prices 'bounce' back in February - but housing fundamentals are weak

A short note on today's ECB Meeting: Monetary tightening is needed because today is not 2008

USA: Philadelphia Fed survey continues to show a weak manufacturing sector - but activity in the service sector is far more important

China: Economic statistics in January-February do not give rise to much optimism

By Invitation: China's new Parliament focuses on economic recovery, security, and confrontation with the US

USA: NFIB small business survey shows a tightening labour market

USA: Headline inflation moderates, but the biggest sector of the economy, services, sees the highest inflation rate since 1982

USA: Fiscal balances deteriorate as the Federal Reserve creates headwinds - and will continue to do so. Washington will soon have to raise defence spending markedly

A short note on the Iran-Saudi deal, yuan internationalisation, SVP, federal debt refinancing, CHIPS, IRA, banking crisis and North Korea

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China: Monetary statistics still show no signs of a sustainable and self-propelled economic recovery. Does Xi Jinping care? Maybe!

USA: January labour market report was not a 'statistical error' - and employment growth continued in February. No signs of labour market weakness in the coming months

China: Falling inflation shows a weak and vulnerable recovery. The 'solidarity dilemma' facing Europe

USA: The liquidity situation is now contracting at the fastest rate since the 'Volcker era' - and the labour market might still show strength for a little longer

The Eurozone is facing the same tight liquidity situation as the US economy - but the ECB faces bigger problems

A disappointing trade report and the Two-Sessions NPC meeting underscore that China faces significant headwinds

Germany: Industrial orders continue to bounce back. The difference between the financial crisis and today is the demographic headwind

China's Two-Sessions Meeting: 'Moderate' growth forecast of only 5% in 2023 despite the reopening process. Why? Beijing plans to use more money on geopolitical threats - to the disadvantage of private consumption

Japan: Tokyo price subsidies do not disguise increasing inflationary pressures. The share of households 'seeing inflation higher than 5%' skyrockets

Eurozone: Factory gates headline prices decline in January, but core prices increase. The new reality will create price volatility in the future

USA: The service sector is becoming the economy's main inflation driver. This means more work for the Federal Reserve, although inflation pressure declined in today's survey

Revisiting the 'monetary normalisation case': European real bond yields are still low based on ten-year inflation expectations

Eurozone: Core inflation gains momentum in February as the ECB faces a larger-than-expected and structural inflation problem

China: A sharp rebound in the official PMI indexes creates the foundation for higher commodity prices - and will contribute to a new global inflation leg in H2

Germany: Headline price pressure fails to decline before the next inflation leg emerges. More tightening for longer will continue the normalisation process in the bond market

USA: ISM manufacturing survey shows more contraction and higher inflation pressure

Eurozone: The ECB will be forced to tighten more for longer as the monetary union faces structural inflation problems

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