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Wildfires in Los Angeles drive air pollution to its worst in five years
Los Angeles is battling severe wildfires. As of Jan. 9, there was no containment in sight. There were at least five deaths and over 100,000 people were forced to evacuate as entire neighborhoods were wiped out.
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Tracking the BoE's growing optimism for the last quarter of 2024
UK asset prices are being rocked by the global bond selloff in real time, but the underlying British economy is decidedly stronger than the Bank of England expected a year ago.
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Funds flow out of Malaysia since Trump win – and a ringgit decline could follow
When it comes to exchange rates, fund flows continue to send strong predictive signals. Recently, international asset-allocation trends are pointing to a "Trump factor" that might weaken the Malaysian ringgit.
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South Korea's political turmoil: fund and market indicators to watch
South Korea shocked the world when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law for the first time since the country's transition to democracy in the 1980s. The incident lasted only six hours as legislators voted unanimously to overturn the declaration.
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2024: A year of surprises from Citigroup's economic and inflation indices
As we move into mid-December, the economic narrative for 2024 appears clear in retrospect: inflation was mostly tamed, and most central banks could start easing.
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Nowcasting inflation in India: food price spike looks transitory
Predicting "transitory" inflation went wrong for some of the world's central bankers earlier this decade, but this might be a safer call for India -- where a spike in food prices is reversing itself in real time.