Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Global Economic Monitor 220407

(Introduction)

[Markets]
※   Wall Street ends lower
※   Oil prices down sharply
※   Dollar index hits nearly two-yr peak


[Indicators]


[News]
※   Central bank officials at their meeting last month spelled out a plan for shrinking their $9 trillion asset portfolio next month to help cool inflation, minutes show
※   International Energy Agency plans a new reserve release totaling 120 million barrels
※   Attack on navy ships at Berdyansk port could limit Russia’s ability to fire on eastern Ukraine, analysts say; ‘major logistical blow’
※   Measures being discussed by the U.S. and EU would cast a spotlight on the Russian president’s closely guarded family life
•   NYT: A New Covid Mystery


[Opinions]
•   Project Syndicate(Daniel Gros): Is Putin’s War Driving Up Commodity Prices?
•   Project Syndicate(Daniel Cohen): Putin’s War Blows Up the French Election
•   FT(Editorial Board): French voters face a momentous choice
•   FT(Edward Luce): The world-changing meaning of Putin
•   FT(Robert Armstrong): The Fed gets scary
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Democrats Have Gasoline Price Amnesia
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Germany ‘Putin-izes’ Putin’s Gas
•   WSJ(Daniel Henninger): Don’t Let Putin Win in Ukraine
•   WSJ(Karl Rove): Trump’s Two-Month Primary Test
•   WSJ(Peter Funt): Concerts for Ukraine, Again and Again
•   NYT(Philip Breedlove): Why Russian Sanctions Won’t Stop Putin
•   Bloomberg(Jonathan Bernstein): A Midterm Landslide Is Still No Sure Thing
•   Bloomberg(Clara Ferreira Marques, Matthew Brooker): The West Needs to Help China Loosen Its Russian Embrace
•   Bloomberg(Lionel Laurent): Macron’s ‘Revolution’ Faces a Reckoning

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