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Jeroen Blokland
Opinion
October 5, 2022

Graph of the week: more than a pound of trouble

UK financial markets are in “turmoil”. This somewhat CNBC-esque opening, however, covers it well…
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Jeroen Blokland
Opinion
September 26, 2022

Graph of the week: Eurozone is down but not out

After consistently recording fat pluses over the past decade, the euro area’s trade balance has sunk…
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Jerome Powell, President of the Federal Reserve.
Asset Allocation
September 22, 2022

Probably the best and worst year ever for bonds

This will probably be the worst but also the best year for bonds ever. Rising interest rates and…
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Jeroen Blokland
Opinion
September 19, 2022

Chart of the Week: Housing as the next domino

Activity in the US housing market is rapidly declining. New home sales fell more than 12 per cent in…
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Dr Sofia Harrschar, country head Luxembourg, Universal Investment. Photo: UI.
Opinion
September 14, 2022

Sofia Harrschar: Investors find stability in alternatives

Economic insecurities on a broad scale are increasingly impacting the decision making of…
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Jeroen Blokland
Investing
September 12, 2022

Chart of the week: A few rate hikes, but then what?

In retrospect, we can say that central banks used the annual Jackson Hole symposium to revive their…
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Jeroen Blokland
Opinion
September 5, 2022

Chart of the week: the yuan as sentiment indicator

With China using interest rates again to defuse the property crisis, and the Federal Reserve making…
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Han Dieperink: the added value of low volatility
Asset Allocation
September 1, 2022

The added value of low volatility

Low-risk stocks do better in the long run than high-risk stocks. For the record, this story equates…
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Edin Mujagić, chief economist at OHV Asset Managemnt.
Opinion
August 31, 2022

The ECB fails since 1999!

“In accordance with Article 105(1) of the Treaty, the primary objective of the ESCB shall be to…
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Jeroen Blokland
Investing
August 29, 2022

Chart of the week: German inflation nearing 10%

It was a huge shock. The 37.2 percent increase in German producer prices, or PPI, for July that the…
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