PA ANALYSIS: Where best to hide from inflation
As March’s UK inflation figures were released predictions fired around whether it had peaked, interest rate expectations and all manner of rationale.
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March inflation remains stable at 2.3%
The UK consumer prices index (CPI) inflation rate was 2.3% in March, unchanged from its February figure.
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PA ANALYSIS: ‘Caution over chaos’ or bold action after Article 50?
While the momentous triggering of Article 50 was rather anti-climactic, should investors proceed with caution or carry on as before?
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PA ANALYSIS: Fear inflation, stagflation, or stagnation?
Some believe the bond markets point to stagflation rather than inflation, but other managers raise different concerns.
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Inflation reaches 2.3% – highest level since 2013
February saw UK headline CPI rise to 2.3% – its highest level since November 2013 – introducing a “two-sided risk” to the economy.
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Hodges: Dump TIPS, prepare for stagflation
Nomura Global Dynamic Bond manager Richard Hodges says stagflation is the most likely scenario for the global economy this year.
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PA ANALYSIS: Fed poised to act but no bond ‘bloodbath’
Treasury yields saw their largest one-day increase for over three months on Wednesday, but is the Fed right to be hawkish, and what does this mean for the bond bull market?
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PA ANALYSIS: “Irrational” Bank of England must raise rates
For MPC member Gertjan Vlieghe to admit that the Bank of England is in no position to predict the next recession was a brave call, but do policy makers have the courage to hike rates?
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PA ANALYSIS: Time to worry about inflation?
Inflation in the United Kingdom economy has crept up to within a hair’s breadth of the Bank of England’s target, and with rates down at 0.25% could the horse be about to bolt before the stable door is closed?
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PA ANALYSIS: Can anything put the brakes on the UK equities rally?
United Kingdom equities has been a remarkably resilient asset class as the winds of macroeconomic uncertainty have swirled around following the Brexit vote, but how long can this continue?
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Bank of England completes its u-turn on economy
The Bank of England further undermined its own post-Brexit ‘forecasts of doom’ by sharply increasing its expectation for UK growth to 2% in 2017, professional investors said on Thursday.
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Will Trump create heaven or hell for the global economy?
According to Psigma Investment Management CIO Thomas Becket, under President Trump we could get a version of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Purgatorio or Paradiso. The question is, which one?