Peak Inflation Hopes, Oil Dips on US Stockpile

2022-04-14 Global stocks were mostly up Thursday on hopes inflation may be close to peaking. The ECB’s meeting is in focus, and policymakers are expected to open the door to a summer rate hike. Oil prices fell after US crude inventories rose more than expected by 9 million barrels last week. Something is loading. Global […]

The new government hopes to cure Germans’ distaste the stockmarket

2022-01-13 15:18:48 Jan 15th 2022 THE 177-PAGE coalition agreement between Germany’s Social Democrats, Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens contains grand plans to combat climate change and covid-19, and to speed up digitisation. Tucked away on page 73 is a more modest promise, to fund a small part of its public-pension scheme by investing in […]