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The Global Week Ahead: Immaculate Disinflation?

Much of the coming week’s focus across global markets will be upon the intersection between US inflationary pressures and company earnings reports and how the two impact overall risk appetite. Toss in what could be important guidance from the Fed, BoC and BoE at the annual IMF/IIF meetings in Bangkok and we have a recipe for a potential step forward in our understanding of nearer-term asset allocation choices.…

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Marc to Market

It is too early to have much confidence that the fever in the bond market has broken, but benchmark 10-year yields in North America, most of Europe, including France and Italy, settled lower on the week. The 10-year JGB yield fell seven basis points to return to 3%. Following successful coupon auctions this past week, the 10-year US Treasury yield eased by almost six basis points to settle near 5.25%. The social…

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Wolf Street

The US government sold $728 billion of Treasury securities during the week, spread over eight auctions

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Economist on US debt:

Economist on US debt: 'The problem is we're not resilient' Michael B. Kelley · Senior Director, Content Sun, October 11, 2026 at 12:51 PM GMT+1 2 min read Kenneth Rogoff used to worry that America's debt would slow growth. Nowadays, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund is worried about something worse

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Trump forms committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against Fed governor Lisa Cook

Trump forms committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against Fed governor Lisa Cook Jennifer Schonberger · Senior Reporter Fri, October 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM GMT+1 3 min read President Trump has established a committee to investigate allegations against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, including mortgage fraud and whether her statements constituted legal "cause" for Cook's removal from the central bank

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Iran Strikes LPG Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz, As Houthis Reportedly Mine Bab al-Mandab

Iran Strikes LPG Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz, As Houthis Reportedly Mine Bab al-Mandabby Tyler DurdenAuthored...SummaryHouthis reportedly mine Bab al-Mandab: Saudi media reports 'dense' mining in the strategic Red Sea shipping route, with demining operations underway.Iran escalates tanker attacks & threats: The IRGC claims it struck an LPG tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a major fire, and threatens further…

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FRED Blog

These brief articles use data and graphing features in FRED®, our free data service. They illustrate timely economic concepts and best practices for using data. Views expressed are not necesarily those of the St. Louis Fed or Federal Reserve System

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FTMO Paid $422 Million for OANDA

FTMO paid over 8.79 billion Czech koruna (about $422 million at today’s exchange rate) to acquire OANDA last year, according to its annual filings. CVC, the previous owner of OANDA, bought the broker in 2018 for $160 million

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This week we got a sneak-peak at the playbook for when the AI bubble bursts

Add as a preferredsource on GoogleSummaryA look at this week's most-interesting market moveUSD bubbleIt wasn't a big week in financial markets. When you upwrap it, Fed pricing has been flat and major indexes chopped sideways. The Iran war continues with the usual threats, but we did get a promise from Trump not to attack before the midterms. How credible that promise is might be up for debate. Later today we will…

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Job losses concentrated among young Canadians in September

Canada’s labour market lost 68,000 jobs in September, driven by losses in public sectors (education and health care), piling onto the 42,000-job loss in the prior month. These losses reversed most of the job growth seen over the summer and leave the year-to-date employment count at -41,000

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