Macro · past 7 days
Monetary policy, central banks, inflation, currencies, and sovereign debt: the machinery that prices money itself. Polylog reads macro through a sound-money lens, watching credit expansion, real rates, and the slow shift toward a multipolar monetary order.
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Dollar holds near its highest level in a year and a half before US inflation data forecast to show a 3.6% annual rise
Wednesday's consumer price report is one of the last major data releases before the Federal Reserve meets on October 28, and higher oil prices have pushed up the forecast for headline inflation.
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IMF opens its Bangkok meetings warning that global public debt will exceed 100% of output before 2030
Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, warned that "winter is coming," as interest payments already take more than a tenth of revenue in the average developing country and the Iran war's energy shock leads the agenda.
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Argentina's Caputo seeks about $1 billion from the IMF in Bangkok as Indonesia courts Vaca Muerta energy
The IMF wants Argentina's recovery to spread beyond farming, mining and energy, while app-based self-employment has grown by up to 30% in a year with unemployment at 7.9%.
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US Long-Term Yields Stay Near Two-Decade Highs as Pre-Election Spending Adds to Fiscal Worries
The 30-year Treasury yield ended Friday at about 5.60%, and finance ministers gathering in Bangkok this week face elevated public debt and oil above $100 a barrel.
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Indian Economists Expect the Reserve Bank to Raise Rates by Up to a Full Percentage Point as Oil Keeps Inflation Up
SBI Capital Markets says a larger move in December cannot be ruled out, after the Reserve Bank of India, which had last raised rates in 2023, lifted the repo rate to 5.50%.
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Flávio Bolsonaro Pledges Only Inflation-Linked Minimum Wage Rises Before Brazil's Oct. 25 Runoff
Investors treat the senator as the more fiscally restrictive candidate after he finished ahead of President Lula in the first round, and the two are in a close race.
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Argentina Has Approved More Than $56 Billion in Projects Under Its Investment Incentive Regime, Yet Investment Keeps Falling
Capital formation has declined since early 2025, and economist Alberto Ades, who once backed the government's course, says the peso is too strong.
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Ten-Year Treasury Yield Ends Week at 5.24% as Bessent Skips the IMF and World Bank Meetings in Bangkok
Gold rose 1.3% and silver 2.2% on Friday as yields eased slightly, though both metals are still down over the past month while the 10-year Treasury yield stays near 5.24% and the 30-year near 5.63%.
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Reserve Bank of India Tightens Currency Derivative Rules Days After Its First Rate Increase Since 2023
Companies can now trade rupee derivatives without proving an underlying exposure only up to $5 million, down from $100 million, and they cannot rebook cancelled contracts.
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Citi Says French Fiscal Risks Could Make the European Central Bank Stop Raising Rates After December
Belgian police clashed with about 30,000 people who marched in Brussels against spending cuts, which shows how hard it is for euro-zone governments to reduce deficits.
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Bank of Thailand tightens checks on foreign-currency and gold inflows as Singapore prepares another tightening
Thailand is using paperwork rules to slow a gold-driven rise in the baht, while China's central bank says it will keep letting the market decide the yuan's exchange rate.
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ECB minutes show September hike was driven by an energy shock now expected to last into 2027
Policymakers judged that headline inflation would stay well above target into the first half of 2027, but officials speaking on Thursday played down a near-term follow-up move.
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Japanese household spending falls again as Takaichi pushes a two-year cut to the consumption tax on food
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the upper house that local governments' lost revenue would be fully compensated, and she has pledged to fund the cut without issuing new government bonds.
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Lula adopts a fiscal-discipline message for Brazil's October 25 runoff as polls show a tie with Flávio Bolsonaro
The president will argue that a fourth term would allow interest rates to fall, while his rival proposes a constitutional overhaul of the courts, and a federal judge has let one betting operator keep working despite Lula's ban.
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Fed minutes show unanimous backing for September rate hike and a majority leaning toward another by year end
Gold rose 0.4% in Asian trading after touching a two-month low, and State Bank of India economists urged the Reserve Bank of India to raise rates by half a percentage point.
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Flávio Bolsonaro's team studies spending curbs worth up to 250 billion reais as investors bet on a runoff win
Brazil's main stock index jumped 7.70% in a single day, and the real strengthened 4.6%, after he led the first round with 47.03% of the vote.
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More Russians now pick cash over bank deposits for savings as cross-border transfers draw tougher penalties
A Latvian court sentenced an activist to six years in prison for sending 43 euros to Russia, and the speaker of Russia's lower house called moving money abroad an aggravating factor in crime.
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Trump promises $5,000 to every adult if Republicans hold Congress, a pledge that would cost more than $1 trillion
The offer requires congressional approval and would add to a federal deficit of nearly $1.8 trillion, while protesters interrupted Trump's Texas rally for Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
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Reserve Bank of India raises its repo rate to 5.50%, its first increase since February 2023
The central bank also shifted its policy stance from "neutral" to "calibrated tightening." The rupee held near 96.4 per dollar after the decision, and traders had largely expected the move.
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Gold steadies near $4,160 after the 30-year Treasury yield touches 5.7%, its highest level since 2002
Gold is still down more than 20% since the US-Iran war began in February. Rising yields and a stronger dollar have outweighed wartime demand for gold as a hedge.
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Argentine forecasters say the economy is already in recession and cut their 2026 growth forecast to 1.5%
Analysts in Argentina's central bank survey expect a 1% quarterly contraction in the third quarter and September inflation rising to 1.9%.
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Japan's real wages rise 1.5% in August, an eighth straight gain that keeps another Bank of Japan hike in play
Base salaries grew 3.8%, but government relief that lowers measured inflation accounts for part of the gain. Markets are split on whether the Bank of Japan will move again in October, after its September increase.
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US 10-year Treasury yield reaches 5.34%, the highest since 2002, as the bond sell-off raises borrowing costs for junk-rated companies
The euro fell to a 17-month low on French debt worries, and Banque de France governor Emmanuel Moulin warned that France's annual interest bill could reach €100 billion by 2028 or 2029.
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Bank of Japan prepares to declare that underlying inflation has reached its 2% target
Sources told Reuters the central bank could do so in its October 30 outlook report, one month after it raised its policy rate to a 31-year high, while Nidec's yen bonds fell to the lowest price among more than 3,000 local corporate notes.
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Flávio Bolsonaro Leads Lula Into Brazil's Runoff, and Brazilian Assets Jump Overnight
Flávio Bolsonaro took 47.04% of valid votes to President Lula's 45.15%. A New York-listed fund of Brazilian stocks rose 9% in late trading, and the real gained almost 4% in futures before the October 25 runoff.
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Treasury Yields Hold Near 24-Year Highs After Weak Jobs Data, While the Nikkei Climbs Back Above 70,000
US employers added only 29,000 jobs in September, and bets on an October Federal Reserve rate increase fell. The 10-year yield remains above 5.1%, but gold has not risen to match.
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Reserve Bank of India Expected to Raise Rates for the First Time Since 2023 as Inflation Stays Above Target
Nine of 10 economists surveyed by Mint expect a 25-basis-point increase to 5.50% on October 7. A Reuters poll found less agreement, and banks argue that credit growth can absorb the increase.
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Britain's Largest Banks Will Press the Chancellor to Cut Capital Requirements, Treasury Committee Chair Says
Treasury Committee chair Meg Hillier argues that London cannot ignore a global move to lower bank capital requirements. Meanwhile, dealmaking is falling, and companies such as Nippon Paint are scaling back acquisitions.