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1. "The Fragile State of the World's Children" (2020). UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Fragile_State_of_the_Worlds_Children_2020.pdf 2. Blyth, Erica. "The Fragile State of Mental Health in the Workplace" (2020). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/08/the-fragile-state-of-mental-health-in-the-workplace 3. Alford, Henry. "The Fragile Beauty of the Ocean" (2020). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/ocean-plastic-pollution.html 4. "Fragile States Index 2020" (2020). Fund for Peace. https://fragilestatesindex.org/ 5. "Global Fragility Act: A Crucial Step Toward Addressing Global Fragility" (2020). U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. https://www.usglc.org/global-fragility-act-crucial-step-toward
Markets hit the pause button after a selloff in equities since the start of the week but sentiment remained fragile, as worries re-emerged over the prospects for the U.S. economy and investors focused squarely on this week's job reports. Labour data on Wednesday suggested the U.S. jobs market was losing steam, raising expectations the Federal Reserve may resort to large interest rate cuts, while additional reports including Friday's non-farm payrolls data are keeping sentiment on edge. Futures indicated European bourses were set for a subdued open after Asian shares rose 0.4% on Thursday, clawing back some of the week's losses, although the MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan is still down 2.2% so far this week.
The desire to “make supply chains robust” has been a major talking point for protectionists (and other industrial policy supporters). This rhetoric has accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic allegedly showed how fragile globalized supply chains are. A few years ago, I wrote a post questioning the validity of such claims from a market-failure perspective. Here, […]
Investors expressed clear dissatisfaction with last week's US non-farm payroll report, not much due to a miss in job growth expectations, but data left the size of the upcoming Fed rate cut unsettled, raising fears that Fed's indecisive stance could worsen the already fragile economic outlook. In response, US equity markets ended the week sharply lower, with major indexes posting significant losses alongside a notable drop in the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield. The risk-off sentiment also spread to other markets, including oil and cryptocurrencies.
Tweet… is from page 242 of Charles Calomiris’s and Stephen Haber’s important 2014 book, Fragile By Design (footnote deleted): If the mortgage-underwriting standards in effect at Fannie and Freddie circa 2003 had remained in place, nothing on the magnitude of the subprime crisis would have occurred. DBx: Yep. And as Calomiris and Haber show in […]
UK GDP growth for August meet economist expectations of just 0.2% highlighting the fragile state of the economy in the early months of the new Labour government. “Having brushed aside a 2023 slowdown, the UK economy grew by 0.7% in the first quarter of 2024 and by 0.5% in the second. However, the third quarter […]