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🇺🇸 Goolsbee's case for a fourth hike ran into a same-day oil crash

Chicago Fed's Austan Goolsbee argued the Fed must hike through energy and tariff shocks now, not look past them. Hours later, US-Iran diplomacy hopes drove one of the cycle's sharpest single-day oil drops, cutting West Texas Intermediate crude 4.5%.

🇺🇸 Goolsbee's case for a fourth hike ran into a same-day oil crash
Chicago Fed's Austan Goolsbee argued the Fed must hike through energy and tariff shocks now, not look past them. Hours later, US-Iran diplomacy hopes drove one of the cycle's sharpest single-day oil drops, cutting West Texas Intermediate crude 4.5%.
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🇪🇺 Lane pushes back the ECB's return to 2% inflation to mid-2027 as the energy shock resurfaces

ECB chief economist Philip Lane says a second energy price shock pushes the euro area's return to target inflation out to mid-2027, reversing a consensus that formed just three months ago. August's print held at 3.3%, still well above the ECB's 2% goal.

🇪🇺 Lane pushes back the ECB's return to 2% inflation to mid-2027 as the energy shock resurfaces
ECB chief economist Philip Lane says a second energy price shock pushes the euro area's return to target inflation out to mid-2027, reversing a consensus that formed just three months ago. August's print held at 3.3%, still well above the ECB's 2% goal.
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🇬🇧 A record factory rebound collides with worsening Budget arithmetic

£18.3bn: UK public borrowing in August, £3.5bn above the fiscal watchdog's forecast. It landed the same week the CBI's factory order-books survey posted its sharpest two-month rebound in almost 50 years, five weeks before the 28 October budget.

🇬🇧 A record factory rebound collides with worsening Budget arithmetic
£18.3bn: UK public borrowing in August, £3.5bn above the fiscal watchdog's forecast. It landed the same week the CBI's factory order-books survey posted its sharpest two-month rebound in almost 50 years, five weeks before the 28 October budget.
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🌏 Nigeria cuts rates 350bps in one meeting, running the Turkey playbook in reverse

Nigeria's central bank cut its policy rate 350 basis points to 23% in one sitting, dwarfing Brazil's routine quarter-point trim. Emerging-market central banks are moving the same direction at wildly different speeds.

🌏 Nigeria cuts rates 350bps in one meeting, running the Turkey playbook in reverse
Nigeria's central bank cut its policy rate 350 basis points to 23% in one sitting, dwarfing Brazil's routine quarter-point trim. Emerging-market central banks are moving the same direction at wildly different speeds.
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🇨🇳 China's yuan strength is subsidized, not earned, ahead of the Xi-Trump summit

China's central bank held its Loan Prime Rate steady for a 16th straight month, even as it guided the yuan to its strongest level since February 2023 ahead of the Xi-Trump summit, a move funded by a jump in short-term liquidity injections and paired with a foreign-bank outreach push.

🇨🇳 China's yuan strength is subsidized, not earned, ahead of the Xi-Trump summit
China's central bank held its Loan Prime Rate steady for a 16th straight month, even as it guided the yuan to its strongest level since February 2023 ahead of the Xi-Trump summit, a move funded by a jump in short-term liquidity injections and paired with a foreign-bank outreach push.
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