Norman Villamin

By scaling up the Treasury’s buyback programme, a Fed-Treasury partnership could effectively replicate Operation Twist, used to lower long-term borrowing costs in 1961 and briefly in 2011.
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What the US can do to control rising yields

Energy, materials and industrial stocks outperformed the S&P 500 in four of the five energy shocks by an average of 16%.
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What history tells us about what it takes to reap positive market returns amid an oil shock

A Trump administration able to unilaterally reshape the Federal Reserve Board would potentially serve as a catalyst for volatility in not only US interest rates, but also potentially the US dollar market.
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Trump 2.0: the stage of moving fast and breaking things

China can draw lessons from the experiences of Japan and South Korea, to cushion some of the pain that economic transitions entail.
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Opportunities in new paradigms ahead for China

Pauses in price action in gold are opportunities to build up positions in the precious metal.
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The three-year gold bull market isn’t over

Israeli security forces and first responders gathering in front of a building heavily damaged by an Iranian strike on Tel Aviv. Investors should recognise that a growing range of events has crossed red lines and presage a new regime of elevated geopolitical volatility.
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Israel vs Iran: Navigating a new regime of geopolitical risk

US stocks have reversed the Trump election-inspired valuation optimism.
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Tariffs challenge: What markets are and aren’t pricing in

DeepSeek could well help China restart its economy overall, providing a critical step in economic reform and restructuring.
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DeepSeek: Another piece in the puzzle of China’s post-bubble recovery

With four years in Trump's final term as US president and only two years of assured Congressional majorities. Trump is expected to move quickly in 2025 to change the status quo.
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Trump likely to ‘move fast and break things’ to reshape the US and the world order

China has floated the prospect of one trillion yuan for bank recapitalisation, amounting to under 1 per cent of its gross domestic product.
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A historical context to China’s ‘whatever-it-takes’ efforts to boost the economy