February 14, 2025/Oilprice.com Michael Kern Editor, Oilprice.com Oil prices are rising despite concerns about Trump imposing tariffs on trading partners and talk of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Oil prices are now set to end the week with a gain, ending a three-week losing streak. Backwardation has eased […]

February 14, 2025/CSL Research Consumer prices in the United States surged in January 2025, recording the sharpest increase in nearly 18 months. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.5% month-on-month (m/m), the largest gain since August 2023, accelerating from December 2024’s 0.4% m/m increase. On a year-on-year (y/y) basis, […]

(Credit: Klaas Jan Schraa/iStock by Getty Images) February 13, 2025/IMFBlog By Katharina Bergant, Mai Hakamada, Divya Kirti, and Rui C. Mano Before the pandemic, investors worried about how persistently low inflation and interest rates would crimp bank profits. Paradoxically, they also worried about bank profitability when post-COVID reopening sent inflation […]