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Why the yen can shake global markets

The Bank of Japan has raised its policy rate to 1.25%, its highest level in thirty-one years. And yet the yen remains under pressure. This paradox illustrates how the carry trade works, a strategy...

This is how France will be hanged

There are two ways to die by hanging: asphyxiation or a broken neck. This morbid distinction can be applied to financial markets, and more precisely to the debt issued by the French Treasury.

Best Articles of the Week: Food and a Little Debt

Cooking draws borders that are sturdier than many treaties, while the Financial Times wonders whether the world is really drowning in debt. We also encounter AI agents making their way into finance...

The Great Return of Bonds: Why Dividend Stocks Have Lost Their Superpower

After a decade of dominance fueled by near-zero interest rates, dividend stocks are faltering. The sharp rise in rates has restored the appeal of bonds: yield, with less risk.

Magnificent 1 + 6: when Meta alone carries Big Tech

No more blank checks for the tech giants. While Mark Zuckerberg is finally cashing in on AI dividends, the rest of the group is running out of steam.

Gold under pressure despite intact structural support

The yellow metal has lost ground this week amid rising bond yields and renewed appetite for oil risk, without its long-term fundamentals being called into question.

The Greenback Rides Eurozone Vulnerabilities

The dollar consolidated its gains, supported by rising US Treasury yields and persistent global inflationary pressures. The euro paid a steep price, hurt by the eurozone's energy and fiscal...

Oil isn't the Fed's only problem

The US economy's momentum is very strong. Indeed, maybe a little too strong.

Global bonds: why yields are not letting up

The global bond market is enduring its worst stretch in years: the US 10-year is trading above 5.3%, a level not seen since 2007, and government bonds are down nearly 3% since January while stocks are...

John Williams Resets the Fed's Rate Clock

A Fed rate hike in October had seemed all but guaranteed, although comments made by the New York Fed president have changed the situation.

AI is 55% financed in a closed loop

The artificial intelligence boom partly rests on a closed loop: companies finance partners that buy their products. This insularity has fueled debate over the risks of such an ecosystem. But beyond...

How France has Become Europe's Weakest Link

In just a few years, France's position has not only deteriorated in absolute terms, but also relative to its peers.

FTC Probes Risks Tied to OpenAI and Anthropic Products

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies to examine potential risks associated with their products. The move...

A rosy picture of the US economy, based on BEA data

Figures released early this afternoon paint a flattering picture of the state of the US economy, with upward revisions to H1 growth, robust household spending and inflation data that look fairly...

Uranium's revenge: the once-cursed metal is king again

From market pariah to a star resource for tech and the energy transition: the radioactive ore is staging a spectacular comeback. Here's how to play this stock market revenge.

US Midterms: 3 Major Scenarios and Their Financial Impacts

The US midterm elections will be held on Tuesday, November 3. As usual, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the Senate's 100 seats will be up for election. What is at stake in this...

Two months of truce and two pandas

So far, those are the only concrete results of the summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

One of the longest bear markets in history has still not bottomed out

The selloff in government bonds began in 2020. And it does not appear to be ending anytime soon.

MarketScreener's Odds and Ends: all your eggs in one basket

This week's lineup: an S&P 500 handing most of its growth to a single sector, American households who have never bet so much on the stock market, and copper inventories that crossed the Atlantic.

The long-awaited summit that nobody expects anything from

By welcoming Xi Jinping to Washington, Donald Trump will try to put on a show. That is probably all that will matter.

AI Gold Rush: What if the fortune goes to the gold miners, not the pickaxe sellers?

The market, for now, has made its call: in the rush towards artificial intelligence, the money is made selling the pickaxes, GPUs, data centers, proprietary models, rather than hunting for the gold...

US consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing

From mortgages to auto loans to credit cards, borrowing is set to get even pricier.

The ABC of financial analysis: The different ways a listed company can raise funds

Broadly speaking, a listed company looking to raise capital has eight main options, ranked below from the most flexible and most expensive to the most restrictive but most affordable.

In New York, Donald Trump on all fronts

Before hosting Xi Jinping this weekend in Washington, the US president will line up a series of meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.