Economy

Business Cycle Indicators as of End-June

Personal income, consumption, slightly above consensus; manufacturing and trade industry sales (April), and 3rd release GDO: Figure 1: NFP employment...

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Lithium Prices Tumble As Traders Brace For CATL Supply Surge

SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for Safeh...

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Russia Turns Asia’s Oil Shock Into an Indonesian Opening

SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline Natalia Katona is a freelance commodity analyst, based in the United Arab Emirates....

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Retail Sales and Retail Sales ex-Auto, Gas

Here’re some business cycle indicators with deflated retail sales: Figure 1: Civilian employment adjusted to NFP concept smoothed population controls...

Jun 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Analysis of Industrial Production and Manufacturing Indicators

Industrial production increased by 0.1% month-over-month, falling short of the 0.3% consensus forecast. Key figures include non-farm payroll employmen...

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Georgia Appeals Court Reinstates Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Six Flags

A Georgia appeals court has reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit involving Six Flags and an employee following the tragic death of a seasonal haunted h...

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Shippers Exercise Caution on Hormuz Strait Transit Despite US-Iran Agreement

Shipping companies in Asia and Europe express that it may take weeks to restore confidence in transit through the Strait of Hormuz, with navigation de...

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Hurricane forecast softens to below normal: Colorado State

Researchers at Colorado State University on Wednesday reduced their forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, citing increased confidence that...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

New York court upholds denial of correction officer’s PTSD claim

A New York appeals court on Thursday affirmed a Workers’ Compensation Board decision denying benefits to a correction sergeant who claimed work-relate...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Costco says rotisserie chicken lawsuit is half-baked

Costco is trying to pluck itself out of a class action accusing the warehouse giant of falsely advertising its beloved $4.99 rotisserie chicken as pre...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Comp bar applies in teen worker’s fatal heavy equipment accident

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed the dismissal of tort claims filed by the parents of a 16-year-old worker who was killed while operati...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Coupang fined $409M over massive data breach

Coupang fined $409M over massive data breach Jun 12, 2026 South Korea’s data protection regulator has fined U.S.-based e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. 6...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Active typhoon season raises flood risk across Asia

Active typhoon season raises flood risk across Asia Jun 12, 2026 Coastal areas across Asia, particularly in Japan, eastern China and South Korea, face...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Two UN peacekeepers wounded in attack on convoy in southern Lebanon

Two UN peacekeepers wounded in attack on convoy in southern Lebanon Two Unifil peacekeepers from Malaysia were wounded in an attack on a logistics con...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Australia, Canada and UK pledge £3m for Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives

Australia, Canada and UK pledge £3m for Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives The governments of Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom have launche...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Trump says Iran agreed not to develop or acquire nuclear weapons

Trump says Iran agreed not to develop or acquire nuclear weapons US President Donald Trump said Iran has agreed not only to refrain from developing nu...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

US says it shot down two Iranian drones near Strait of Hormuz

US says it shot down two Iranian drones near Strait of Hormuz A US defence official said American forces shot down two Iranian drones after Tehran all...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Trump: We ended the war with Iran today

Trump: We ended the war with Iran today US President Donald Trump said the conflict with Iran had effectively ended and claimed Tehran had agreed not...

Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Invaluable New Geopolitical Risk Indexes: AI-GPR, GPR-Oil, and More

Readers of Econbrowser know that I’ve put a lot of stress on using high frequency measures of uncertainty and risk to interpret recent events. One of...

Jun 11, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Headline CPI Inflation at Consensus, Real Wages Continue to Be Eroded

Everyday prices nowcasted to outstripping measured CPI and subindices: Figure 1: CPI-all urban (bold black), CPI wage earners and clerical (green), CP...

Jun 10, 2026 • 5 min read