24 June 2022 Higher end grocers weaker in early trade as the penny-pinching habits rise. Brent crude drops below $110 amid global recession fears. The pound hovers around $1.22 brushing…
Uncomfortable realities behind ECB’s dilemma over fragmentation and inflation By David Marsh The European Central Bank’s complex planning for an anti-fragmentation facility for euro area unity could backfire – by…
Inflation blame game By Julian Jacobs Amid declining real wages, accumulating household debt and the looming prospect of recession, the problem of inflation is now firmly in the arena of…
ECB to design new anti-fragmentation instrument By Lewis McLellan The return of inflation and a backdrop of rising rates have led to a rapid widening of European government bond spreads.…
Wall Street in the red, with the S&P 500 falling 3.2% and NASDAQ down 4%. Investors nervous about recession threat given super-hot inflation. FTSE 100 opened up briefly before reversing …
OMFIF’s chief economist, Neil Williams, has provided a comment on today’s Bank of England rate rise: ‘By raising rates today – the fifth hike since December – the Bank of…
Nervousness among investors ahead of US Federal Reserve meeting. Chinese industrial data shows recovery but concerns over Covid curbs remain. US bond yield curve inverted – one indicator a US…
High inflation challenges central banks’ green push By Miroslav Singer ECB President Christine Lagarde has commented about the possibility of a ‘green’ discount rate, 50 basis points lower than the…
Washington, June 13, 2022 – Following Congressional passage of The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, S.3580, the World Shipping Council released the following statement: “Today’s vote on The Ocean…
Russia frozen out of Brics countries’ reserve-sharing By David Marsh and Lewis McLellan China and other leading emerging market economies in the Brics group have effectively frozen out Russia from…
“In my capacity as one of the very few female Lecturers in the School of Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University and a proud member of Women’s International Shipping and…
By Elpi Petraki, Operations, Chartering and Business Development Manager at ENEA Management, and President of WISTA Hellas The industry is in a period of transition as it embraces new technologies,…
“It is said that women tend to invest environmental sustainability processes into business due to their inherent sense of social responsibility. Not just this but, in making decisions that differ…
Ahead of tomorrow’s (18th May) inaugural IMO International Day for Women in Maritime, we share a comment from Teresa Peacock, Managing Director, Executive Search at maritime people experts Spinnaker. The theme of this…
“In my capacity as the President of M-NOW (Maritime Network of Women) I would like to take the opportunity and congratulate all the women in the maritime world on the…
22 April 2022 – Comment from Steve Clayton, HL Select Fund Manager: “Stocks were weak overnight in the USA and Asia. Once more Tech shares led the way lower, with…
Structural reforms required to safeguard democratic future By Sunil Sharma and William White Macroeconomic stabilisation policies cannot address the deep structural problems that confront the economies of many advanced democracies.…
Post Easter Market losses whilst the Ukrainian inferno will last and spill over like Covid… A crucial second Easter Week given the Orthodox Easter but with unorthodox combat. Shame! John…
Gloomy outlook for the IMF Spring meetings By Mark Sobel The International Monetary Fund/World Bank Spring meetings, beginning in Washington on 18 April, will be a gloomy affair. Finance ministers…
Crypto growth too big to ignore for traditional finance By Stephen Stonberg Crypto adoption continues to rise at unprecedented levels. According to Chainalysis, last year saw a stunning 880% rise…
Europe needs action now on inflation to brake loss of euro trust By Jürgen Stark The European Central Bank’s asymmetric monetary policy approach, followed for several years, has now become…
4 April 2022 – Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: ‘’As the uneasy stalemate continues between Russia and European nations about energy supplies, the price of oil…
THE DAILY UPDATE – Saturday 2 April 2022 Why the labour market won’t fuel US inflation By Julian Jacobs Despite low unemployment and high inflation, fears that tight labour markets…
THE DAILY UPDATE Thursday 31 March 2022 Markets overreacting to fears of Japanese yen intervention By Mark Sobel The Japanese yen’s recent depreciation against the dollar has elicited much market…
THE DAILY UPDATE Tuesday 29 March 2022 Looking beyond the war By Anthony Robinson Once the truth about President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and the reasons for Russia’s economic…