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Javier is a former Yahoo Finance editor who has covered foreign exchange, capital markets, the global economy, technology, corporate governance, politics and policy. His career has included stints at Reuters, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.
Yahoo FinanceThe one thing markets aren't worried about isn't tied to Russia-Ukraine
To paraphrase Jay-Z (I’m a Brooklynite, sue me): The market has 99 problems, but COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be one.
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Biden gets rare praise for 'watershed' crypto moves
The pistol for cryptocurrency regulation has officially been fired — and the crypto world is ready and raring to go.
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Oil's magic number that everyone is talking about
Uncle Sam is preparing to hit the Siberian bear where it hurts. And a lot of people will be feeling the pain.
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Oil surge leads to return of realpolitik
Since Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine for the sin of refusing to exist as a Russian satrapy, fiery crude prices are stoking fears of a 1970’s style oil shock, and sending a chill down the market’s spine.
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Consumers to keep driving through high gas prices with no relief
Every now and again, we here at the Morning Brief delight in bringing our readers some good news that helps leaven a news diet filled with grim to outright depressing news.
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Russia-Ukraine the end of dollar dominance? Don’t bet on it
Is the U.S. dollar over as a reserve currency?
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Crypto finds its safe-haven role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis
Cryptocurrency has finally started behaving like something that resembles a safe haven, with bitcoin and other digital tokens taking off on Tuesday as Russia’s incursion into Ukraine took a more dramatic turn.
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Russia-Ukraine crisis shows need for US to 'drill, baby, drill'
There are multiple takeaways from a particularly intense week that saw Russia’s incursion into Ukraine prompt Western economies — in a rare and historic show of force and unity — put the financial squeeze on Moscow.
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Why Wall Street 'is much more worried' about Powell than Putin
Crying ‘havoc,’ Vladimir Putin has let slip the dogs of war — both in Eastern Europe and global financial markets.
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Russia-addled Wall Street may be banking on a rescue
Dispatches from Wall Street — where tensions between Russia and Ukraine turned hot overnight, displacing fears of inflation fighting central bankers — have become decidedly bleak these days.
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Russia-Ukraine may stir dreaded ‘stagflation’ beast from slumber
Believe it or not, the current Russia-dominated news cycle has at least a couple of bright spots.
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Rising crime and the work from home conundrum
If there was ever a pithy slogan or rallying cry suited for a leader in crisis, the above sentence would be perfect for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and could be applied on at least two fronts: working from home and the Big Apple’s skyrocketing violent crime.
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Russia-Ukraine, and the Fed make for Catch 22 market
Tensions on the border of Russia and Ukraine are forcing Wall Street investors to sell everything (except bonds, gold and the dollar).
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Inflation be damned, consumers are shopping their way through it
Power Twitter users might be familiar with the catchphrase “tweeting through it.” Loosely defined, it’s a state of ignoring a crisis (one most likely of your own making) by posting about other things as a means of idle distraction.
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Red-hot inflation has CEOs 'crowing' and consumers crying (sort of)
Another day, another inflationary data point that demonstrates the underlying strength of both the economy, and corporate America.
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4 pillars of the Ukraine-Russia fear trade
Just days ago, reactive markets were convulsed by fears of spiraling prices, and the prospect of a Federal Reserve making up for lost time with aggressive rate hikes to cool things down.
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Inflation is 'out of control,' and it may make the Fed trigger happy
Alas, the wizard Gandalf could only hold the line for so long.
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What Gandalf and capped bond yields have in common
Bond yields have been on the march, testing their highest levels since before the onset of COVID-19, just as the Federal Reserve embarks on a rate hike campaign to tame inflation.
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Bracing for a stock market that's going 'a whole lot of nowhere'
Unless your name is Meta or Peloton, the fourth quarter earnings season has been surprisingly kind to corporate America.
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The inflationary risk markets are ignoring, but shouldn’t
Ukraine and OPEC have become inflation risks — of sorts.