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Hat tip to Goldman Sachs for taking a somewhat contrarian take on the longer-term outlook for inflation.  Whether it proves correct is anyone’s guess as headlines continue on price spikes for commodities and consumer goods. “We are boosting our sequential inflation assumptions for Q4 and early 2022. We now expect year-on-year core PCE inflation of 4.3% at year-end, 3.0% in June 2022, and 2.15% in December 2022 (vs. 4.25%, 2.7% and 2.0% previously). This slower resolution of supply constraints… Source link

President Joe Biden very often cites research from Moody’s when he is trying to make a point on the U.S. economy.  He should use the latest from Moody’s Mark Zandi to emphasize any point being made to fellow politicians on both sides of the aisle on the need to get a debt ceiling deal done ASAP.  “Shutting the government down would not be an immediate hit to the economy, but a default would be a catastrophic blow to the nascent economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Zandi, the… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, September 13, 2021 But that doesn’t mean you should sell The calls for a stock market correction are beginning to blow through the streets of Wall and Broad. We aren’t talking about the reiteration of a decade-long Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini type call for a stock market crash due to the always easy excessive valuation and bloated government… Source link

By Dhirendra Tripathi Investing.com – Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and BioNTech stocks (NASDAQ:BNTX) slumped by 15% each Wednesday on a report that Europe’s drug regulator is studying three new conditions reported by a small number of people after vaccination with Covid-19 shots to assess if they may be possible side-effects. The conditions were reported in patients who took the mRNA vaccines made by either Moderna or BioNTech-Pfizer. Pfizer stock fell 3%. Expenses and profit from the Covid… Source link

(Bloomberg) — CureVac NV lost more than half its value in German trading after a preliminary analysis of a large study found its vaccine fell short of the high efficacy bar set by other messenger RNA shots. Hong Kong is planning to shorten quarantine periods for fully vaccinated travelers from most places to seven days from as much as 21 days, so long as they pass an antibody test. Moderna Inc. said the U.S. government exercised an option to buy 200 million more doses of its vaccine, bringing… Source link

Reuters Bitcoin struggles for footing on worries over China, leverage Bitcoin, the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency, rose slightly to $38,072 after plunging 14% on Wednesday to its lowest since late January. Wednesday’s declines in both digital assets were their biggest daily percentage moves in more than a year as investors rushed to exit trades that until recently were heartily outperforming traditional markets such as stocks and bonds. But bitcoin had been under pressure for almost… Source link

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index, a metric that measures the current sentiment in the bitcoin market, has fallen to “extreme fear” levels not seen since April 2020, a report Tuesday showed. The drop in market sentiment follows the past week’s plunge in the bitcoin (BTC) price to about $43,200, down from last month’s record near $65,000. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index is now at 21, down from a “greedy” level of 73 just last week, according to the report from hosting site Alternative… Source link

Bloomberg The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything (Bloomberg) — A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today, on the rebound, it’s companies furiously trying to stock up. Mattress producers to car manufacturers to aluminum foil makers are buying more material than they need to survive the breakneck speed at which demand for goods is recovering and assuage that primal fear of running out. The… Source link

Bloomberg Biden Team Eyes Potential Threat From China’s Digital Yuan (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is stepping up scrutiny of China’s plans for a digital yuan, with some officials concerned the move could kick off a long-term bid to topple the dollar as the world’s dominant reserve currency, according to people familiar with the matter.Now that China’s digital-currency efforts are gathering momentum, officials at the Treasury, State Department, Pentagon and National Security… Source link

Bloomberg One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days (Bloomberg) — From his perch high above Midtown Manhattan, just across from Carnegie Hall, Bill Hwang was quietly building one of the world’s greatest fortunes.Even on Wall Street, few ever noticed him — until suddenly, everyone did.Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time — a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive… Source link