Central Bank of Zambia
Awaiting January U.S. Jobs Data and Puzzling Over Other Weird News
February 11, 2026
The Labor Department’s monthly employment situation report, which will in addition include a variety of revisions to past data, is due within the hour. Analysts are anticipating an unchanged 4.4% jobless rate, marginally softer wage growth of some 3.6% year-on-year and a rise of less than 75k jobs. The U.S. FAA has grounded all air […] More
Inflation Worries Just Won’t Go Away
November 13, 2024
As much as any factor, anger at the 2021-22 spike of inflation sealed the defeat of Democrats in last week’s election. Voters’ choice of a new national leadership team with very different ideas on where to take the country did not end their obsession with inflation. There had always been a lot of irony surrounding […] More
Investors More Hopeful Than Yesterday about Debt Ceiling Talks
May 17, 2023
The dollar rose overnight by 0.8% against the Mexican peso, 0.6% versus the Japanese yen and Swiss franc, and 0.4% relative to the euro. The Japanese Nikkei closed up 0.8%, but share prices in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, India and Australia closed lower. Continental European equities are slightly higher, and so are the DOW […] More
