Sunday, March 20, 2022

Global Economic Monitor 220321

(Introduction)

[Markets]
※   Wall Street main indexes close higher
※   Gold prices edge down
※   Oil over $100 a barrel
※   Treasury yield curve flattens
※   U.S. dollar falls


[Indicators]
•   Eurozone Jan. Balance of trade: Euro zone trade deficit widens as energy import cost surges
•   Brazil Jan. Employment: Brazil’s Jobless Rate Rises Less Than Expected


[News]
※   U.S. president tried to suggest the stakes for China during a nearly two-hour-long videoconference
※   Pope Francis decries ‘violent aggression against Ukraine’ and calls on the international community to act to end ‘this repugnant war’
※   Federal Reserve governor said risks from overseas events drove him to favor smaller rate rise than U.S. economic data alone suggested
※   it claimed for the first time that it had launched one capable of hypersonic speed in an attack on an ammunition depot in western Ukraine
※   President Biden’s top adviser on Covid noted that indoor masking and other restrictions were lifted before latest E.U. surge.
•   NYT: Is Taiwan Next?
※   The two deaths were both reported in Jilin on Friday
※   “21일부터 사회적 거리 두기에 따른 사적모임 인원 제한은 6명에서 8명으로 확대한다”


[Opinions]
•   Project Syndicate(Lucrezia Reichlin): Preparing Europe's Economy for War
•   Project Syndicate(Mark Leonard): Welcome to the Jungle
•   Project Syndicate(Robert Skidelsky): Think Twice Before Sanctioning Russia Further
•   Project Syndicate(Helmut K. Anheier): The German Government's First Report Card
•   Project Syndicate(Daniel Gros): The Smartest EU Sanction on Russia
•   Project Syndicate(Dante Alighieri Disparte): The Biden Administration Gets Serious About Web3
•   Project Syndicate(Jeffrey Frankel): These Russia Sanctions Are Different
•   FT(Editorial Board): Monetary policy in uncertain times
•   FT(Editorial Board): How to ease Britain’s cost of living crisis
•   FT(Philip Stafford): Traders in uproar over the LME
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Russia’s Massacre in Mariupol
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): China’s Great-Power Play
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): How Biden Lost Saudi Arabia
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): China’s Next Contagion?
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Don’t Go Wobbly on Ukraine Now
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): The Next NATO Expansion
•   WSJ(Peggy Noonan): On Ukraine, History Is Listening
•   WSJ(Andy Kessler): War Always Muddles Markets
•   WSJ(Sadanand Dhume): How Covid Bungling Can Win You an Election
•   WSJ(Adam O’Neal): Russia, China and the New Cold War
•   WSJ(Nicholas A. Lambert): What Real Economic Warfare Looked Like
•   WSJ(Bing West): Russian Withdrawal Isn’t Enough
•   WSJ(Nadia Schadlow): Why Deterrence Failed Against Russia
•   WSJ(Jay Clayton, Patrick McHenry): The SEC’s Climate-Change Overreach
•   NYT(Siddharth Sridhar): Why Omicron Is So Deadly in Hong Kong
•   NYT(Yaroslav Hrytsak): Putin Made a Profound Miscalculation on Ukraine
•   WP(Keith B. Richburg): So much for Xi Jinping’s triumphal year
•   Bloomberg(Robert Burgess): Bond Yield Curve Isn't Flashing a Recession Signal Yet
•   Bloomberg(Andy Mukherjee): Oil’s Not at $200. But It’s Pricey Enough for Asia
•   Bloomberg(Liam Denning): Ukraine War Ends the World as We Know It
•   Bloomberg(Matthew Yglesias): The Great Man Theory of Current Events
•   Bloomberg(Philip Bobbitt, Gregory Treverton): Three Ways the ‘Market State’ Can Ease Ukraine’s Suffering
•   Bloomberg(Paul J. Davies): How Did Europe Get Hooked on Russian Energy?
•   Bloomberg(Narayana Kocherlakota): Has the Fed Given Up on Fighting Inflation?

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