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Claire Jones joined Trade Secrets in January 2021 and FT Alphaville in August 2019 to cover the global economy and trade. She is based in Frankfurt and writes about topics that lie at the intersection of economics, politics and markets.

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  • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
    FT Alphaville
    Further reading

    Drone off; Dell’s deal; labour shortages; and much more.

  • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
    Chinese trade
    The terms of China’s massive loan spree

    Research looks at how the world’s largest sovereign creditor lends.

  • Monday, 2 August, 2021
    FT AlphavilleBanks
    Who‘s afraid of the bad Big Tech?

    Central banks, that‘s who. Now the BIS suggests watching them like big banks.

  • Monday, 2 August, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Further reading

    Ghost ships; culture wars; Star Wars; and much more

  • Friday, 23 July, 2021
    FT AlphavilleLibor transition
    Term’s time has come

    The cash markets are finally about to get what they’ve long been asking for — an officially endorsed dollar term rate to replace Libor

  • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
    World
    Further reading

    Valance; Powell; AstraZeneca; and much more

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    FT AlphavilleBank of England
    Man who started QE now member of committee that slams QE

    The House of Lords committee on which Lord Mervyn King sits has laid into the policy he initiated.

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Emerging markets
    Further reading

    Covid origins; Zuckerberg’s speeches; Lumber felled; and much more

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    FT AlphavilleLibor transition
    UK regulators are wading into the US’s Libor transition

    Top officials, including the Bank of England governor, are pushing firms here to adopt a specific benchmark for dollar borrowing.

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  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    FT Alphaville
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    VIEs; American wars; right to repair; and much more.

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    Banks
    Smaller businesses travel back in time to handle Libor’s demise

    The bank rate is emerging as a fix for firms without big treasury operations.

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Trade Secrets
    The seafarers left stranded by the pandemic Premium

    Maritime workers have kept the global economy afloat — often at the expense of their own welfare

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Further reading

    Haldane’s farewell; Messi’s contract; Exxon apologies; and much more.

  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    FT AlphavilleCentral banks
    ECB’s Villeroy voices digital yuan threat

    We’re not nearly as convinced as France’s central bank governor that PBoC project represents a geopolitical risk

  • Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
    FT AlphavilleFT Alphaville
    CBDCs now seem a matter of when not if

    The BIS leaps onto the CBDC bandwagon as it manifests its ultimate settler destiny.

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    FT Alphaville
    Further reading

    Fed hawkishness; Nigeria’s Twitter ban; the original Pride banner; and much more . . . 

  • Monday, 14 June, 2021
    Inside BusinessLibor transition
    Corporates know transition from Libor is painful but necessary

    Companies are still not prepared enough for switch from borrowing benchmark

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    FT AlphavilleLibor transition
    Libor’s US replacements: no one rate to rule them all

    Several alternatives are vying to replace the doomed benchmark. And it’s complicating the transition.

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    FT AlphavilleMarkets
    Do US rules to fix Libor’s legacy go far enough?

    Officials at the state and federal level are writing fallbacks for some of the thorniest Libor-linked contracts into law. They might be inadequate.

  • Friday, 28 May, 2021
    Technology sector
    Further reading

    Wuhan lab; Cummings; Cathie Wood; and much more . . . 

  • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
    FT AlphavilleUS Inflation
    World War 2, M2 and 2020s vision

    The end of war triggered a short lived surge in prices. Are we about to see the same thing again?

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    FT Alphaville
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    Wealth taxes; drone wars; Bunny the dog; and much more

  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    FT Alphaville
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    Inflation; Greensill; ebafyaK; and much more

  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    FT Alphaville
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    Monetarists; chip shortages; Home Office dysfunction; and much more.

  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
    US Inflation
    US inflation comes in far higher than expectations

    Overshoot set to up the pressure on the Fed.

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