When Safe Havens Sink
For decades, financial orthodoxy has rested on a comforting assumption: when panic strikes, investors flee to the usual shelters — US Treasuries, gold, the yen,...
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The Day Emerging Markets Became the Safe Haven
History enjoys irony. For decades, emerging-market currencies were the trembling limbs of global finance — volatile, fragile, forever hostage to dollar surges and capital flight....
When the Creditor Steps Back: China, Treasuries and the Slow Repricing of American Power
The tremor in the Treasury market was brief, almost polite, the sort of movement that registers on screens but does not yet disturb sleep. Reports...
Dollar in Hell
Donald Trump has finally said the quiet part out loud. Asked in Iowa whether he was concerned by the dollar’s slide, the US president smiled...
When Silence Becomes Intervention
By quietly asking New York traders to confirm prices as the yen surged on Friday, US authorities sent a message louder than any communiqué: the...
Europe Calls Time on Rate Cuts
Markets are quietly, but decisively, signalling that Europe’s great rate-cutting adventure is already drawing to a close. Across the continent, investors are converging on the...
The Dollar Refuses to Die — Much to Everyone’s Annoyance
For most of the year, shorting the dollar has been the foreign-exchange world’s favourite pastime. In a $9.6 trillion-a-day market, that’s no small hobby. Yet...
China’s Gold Play: How Bullion Helps Beijing Needle Trump—and the Dollar
The blistering rally in gold is nudging China a little closer to its long-stated ambition: a world less tethered to US-centred finance.Beijing has been stockpiling...
Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Fed Purge on Ice – For Now
The US Supreme Court’s refusal to let President Donald Trump immediately sack Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has offered the central bank a fleeting reprieve...