The week in charts – Week 13
13. Base effects! Eurozone inflation came in significantly lower than expected, mostly due to a bigger than anticipated drop in energy prices. Core inflation fell as well, but this has […]
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The week in charts – episode 3
Here’s an overview of some of the most telling financial markets charts of this week.
Taper Time!
Inflation in the Eurozone spiked to 1.8% in January, the highest level in almost four years! More importantly, 1.8% is also extremely close to the ECB’s inflation target of ‘below, […]
Inflation is not dead! – Update
Last November, I wrote a short blog arguing that inflation was not dead. In fact, significant parts of the economy showed inflation was on the rise. This was, however, completely […]
8 Charts to Show Inflation is not Dead!
Commodities are hitting new lows almost every day. Copper, nickel, oil, they have all gone down the drain. The obvious result: lowflation! In the last couple of years a major […]
Week End Blog – Draghi does it again!
Draghi does it again! A headline very appropriate for many financial articles and blogs, including this one. At the press conference, following the decision of the Governing Council of the […]
Week End Blog – Central Bank Headline Headaches!
I start off this episode of the Week End Blog with a shameless example of self-advertisement. This week I made it to Business Insider’s list of ‘the 128 finance people […]
Week End Blog – with Sharks, Fertility Rates, Chinese Gravity , and… Greece
Last week I surrendered and dedicated most of my blog to Greece. Perhaps that was under the (unknowingly) naive assumption that Greece would have gone away by now. But, of […]
Week End Blog – A Swiss Earthquake!
This already wasn’t the smoothest of starts of the year, but the Swiss Central Bank decided to make things really interesting. In quite a surprise move (there were some rumors […]
Week End Blog – With Central Banks, (dis)inflation and QE
Another week in which central banks took center stage. Again, it became pretty clear that the performance of equity markets is still heavily impacted by the actions, speeches and ‘internal […]
