Sunday, April 3, 2022

Global Economic Monitor 220404

(Introduction)

[Markets]
※   U.S. stocks drop, Treasury yield curve inverts
※   U.S. employers added 431,000 jobs in March
※   U.S. jobless rate at 3.6%
※   Euro zone inflation 7.5% in March
※   Oil heading for 13% fall this week


[Indicators]
•   US Mar. Nonfarm payrolls: U.S. March Jobs Report Shows Strong Hiring Momentum
※   Economists see labor market growing briskly as more workers seek jobs
•   US Feb. Construction spending: U.S. construction spending slows in February
※   Record rate for bloc increases pressure on European Central Bank to raise interest rates
•   한국 3월 은행 가계대출 잔액: 3월 가계대출 2조7천억원 감소
•   한국 3월 은행 기업대출 잔액: 5대 시중銀 기업대출 올들어 18조 급증
•   한국 주간 아파트 수급동향(부동산원): 서울 아파트 매수심리 4주째 '쑥'


[News]
※   Offensive maneuver comes as Russian forces regroup and Ukrainian troops press forward around Kyiv
※   Findings by rights groups and Ukrainian authorities could alter global response
※   Most of Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan and South Korea will join the U.S. in a bid to tame prices that have soared following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
•   NYT: Climate Optimism
※   Beijing and Brussels clash over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Xi Jinping warns against ‘cold war mentality’
※   reporting a case infected with a new subtype of the omicron variant


[Opinions]
•   Project Syndicate(Yao Yang): Will the Ukraine War Ease US-China Tensions?
•   Project Syndicate(Joseph S. Nye, Jr.): Why China Won’t Mediate an End to the Ukraine War
•   Project Syndicate(Shang-Jin Wei): Will China Hit Its Growth Target?
•   Project Syndicate(Chang-Tai Hsieh): Taiwan’s Fatal Attractions
•   Project Syndicate(Kenneth Rogoff): Can the World Afford Russia-Style Sanctions on China?
•   FT(Editorial Board): Living in a world of higher interest rates
•   FT(Editorial Board): Joe Biden’s ill-considered billionaire tax
•   FT(Robert Armstrong): War and markets
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): The European Union’s China Choice
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): A Strategic Political Petroleum Release
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): A Big Defeat for Big Labor
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Let Ukraine Go on Offense Against Russia
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Is Trump the Next Jan. 6 Defendant?
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): The Covid Spending Racket
•   WSJ(Andy Kessler): Here Come the Price Controls
•   WSJ(Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro): What’s on Vladimir Putin’s Reading List?
•   WSJ(Garry Kasparov): Biden Told the Truth: Putin Has to Go
•   NYT(Paul Krugman): Will Putin Kill the Global Economy?
•   NYT(Thomas L. Friedman): Ukraine Is the First Real World War
•   WP(Alina Polyakova, Sasha Stone): Russia’s military losses give diplomacy a fighting chance
•   Bloomberg(Niall Ferguson): Seven Worst-Case Scenarios From the War in Ukraine
•   Bloomberg(Liam Denning): The EU Should Buy American to Wean Off Russian Gas
•   Bloomberg(Ian Buruma): Why Putin Unites Extremists on Left and Right
•   Bloomberg(Nancy Qian): How China Can Make Its Economy Sanctions-Proof
•   Bloomberg(Jessica Karl, Lara Williams): Is Denmark the New American Dream?
•   Fox News(Jason Chaffetz): Top 10 reasons Democrats will lose power in November

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