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Read the latest financial and monetary policy news and commentary from OMFIF’s in-house analysts and global network of specialists.
Basel Committee at 50: From crisis to confidence
The crucial role of implementing Basel standards
| By Udaibir Das and Wayne Byres
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Bloodletting and the US Trade Deficit
Trump’s trade policies backfiring
US trade deficit at highest level in 10 years
Preserving Britain’s place in the EEA
Prime minister must bolster statement to European signatories
Power vacuum points to no-deal Brexit
May will need a Christmas miracle to reimpose her will over proceedings
Africa must accelerate market reforms
All-inclusive financial markets needed to mobilise domestic and foreign capital
Countries victims of ‘ninja’ loans
Allure of easy financing for infrastructure threatens sovereignty
Trump and Powell’s Fed rate deadlock
History points to fraught, tricky relations between US presidents and Fed chiefs
Opening for US-China renminbi action
Neither country wants to deal with complications of weaker currency
