Although purchasing managers surveys for July, released earlier today, suggest that the economicrecovery in the euro-zone as a whole is regaining momentum, they also still show a large gap betweenthe...

The crisis in Ukraine is continuing to have very little effect on the financial markets in most other emerging countries, with the notable exception of Russia. In the past month or so, the MSCI...

The relatively muted reaction in the financial markets so far to the latest tragic turn in the crisis inUkraine – as well as the escalation of the conflict in Gaza and the gains by ISIS in Iraq –...

The rally in the US government bond market this year has coincided with a pick-up in China’s netpurchases of long-term Treasury securities, which some have attributed to intervention to weaken...