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Japanese Yen Intervention
Market Spotlight: US-Japanese Joint Yen Intervention Consensus Economics, London Originally published in Foreign Exchange Consensus Forecasts: August 2026 Download Sample Order After the yen hit a new 40-year low near 164/US$ in late July, US and Japan conducted their first joint intervention since 1998 to lift the currency. To finance...
Trends in Nominal and Real Bond Yields
Trends in Nominal and Real Bond Yields Across Some Selected Economies Consensus Economics, London Originally published in Current Economics: June 2026 Download Sample Order In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, central banks embarked on a decade-long experiment of cutting policy rates to near zero and launching large-scale quantitative...
Europe’s Exposure to Hormuz-Related Transport Disruption
The Long Road: Quantifying Europe's Exposure to Hormuz-Related Transport Disruption Yacine Rouimi and Mark Wall, Deutsche Bank Research Institute, London. Originally published in Current Economics: May 2026 Download Sample Order Heightened geopolitical risk in the Middle East has placed European transport networks under intense scrutiny, with a particular focus...