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Economics

Vincent Boland: Growth is out, value is in as investors choose to shun risk

With such a fundamental shift in market conditions, are we heading for a recession – and if so, how deep? Not even the experts know the answer
  • Vincent Boland
  • December 16, 2022
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Editorial: Causing a recession to drive down inflation will not do the trick

A short-term slowdown today to create better growth prospects tomorrow would be a cure almost as destructive as the disease
  • Business Post
  • August 27, 2022
Economics

US dollar to stay strong against euro and sterling, says currency expert

The ECB and Bank of England may find it hard to match the level of interest rate hikes coming from the Fed, says Moneycorp Europe’s Shane Murphy
  • Ellie Donnelly and
  • Lorcan Allen
  • August 20, 2022
Markets

Financial markets ‘starting to price in potential recession’

Kaspar Elmgreen, head of equities at Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, says that his company is seeing a big fall in consumer confidence in a number of countries
  • Lorcan Allen
  • May 21, 2022

Expert warns central banks not raising interest rates quickly enough to stem inflation crisis

Global assets manager for €133 billion portfolio says a reversal is urgently needed for the world economy’s ‘extreme imbalance of capital and liquidity relative to investment demand’
  • Lorcan Allen
  • May 8, 2022

Vincent Boland: A new decade of austerity is looming and we are woefully unprepared for it

Globalisation is in retreat, the tech revolution is slowing down and public debt is rising
  • Vincent Boland
  • May 6, 2022

US economist warns Fed must ‘act tough’ to counter runaway inflation

International finance professor Sergio Rebelo says the lift in interest rates needs to accelerate to avoid repeat of 1970s crisis
  • Lorcan Allen
  • April 17, 2022

Editorial: The years of free money are now coming to an end

Interest rates are set to rise in 2022, with big implications for homeowners, people and businesses with high borrowings, and the trade and investment that keep the global economy moving
  • Business Post
  • January 9, 2022

Editorial: Ending the flow of ‘free money’ is fraught with risk

The US Federal Reserve is sending out signals that it intends to wind down quantitative easing, but it needs to proceed with caution, for many reasons
  • Business Post
  • November 7, 2021

Fire or ice? Is the US economy overheating or slowing down?

Economists are divided on whether the country faces surging inflation or slowing growth as the rampant Delta variant undermines forecasts
  • Eugene Kiernan
  • August 17, 2021

Analysis: Central banking’s brave new world

The ambition of central bankers once was to ‘be boring’ but they now take on responsibility for policy objectives such as tackling inequality and climate change. Not all onlookers are pleased at this ‘self-defined mission creep’
  • Jean Pisani-Ferry
  • February 24, 2021

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