Dollar Halts 3-Day Decline After Report Shows Inflation Firming

The U.S. currency strengthened from an almost two-week low as the increase in so-called core inflation reflected broad-based gains in the cost of living.

Denmark ready to impose capital controls to protect currency

Denmark's central bank is ready to impose capital controls to stop the inflow of money that has threatened its currency peg with the euro.

Euro Drop to $1.20 Seen by Nomura on No Crisis: Chart of the Day

The euro will weaken more than 5 percent against the dollar by June in a slide that option traders forecast will be slower than the tumble during Europe’s debt crisis in 2012, according to Nomura Holdings Inc.

Dollar Heads for Weekly Gain as Data Support Pace of Fed Taper

The dollar headed for weekly gains against the euro and the yen as improving economic data backed speculation the Federal Reserve will remove stimulus this year.

The Global Inflation Wave: Waiting for Constantine?

Source: The Globalist

Alexander Mirtchev and Norman Bailey

In the wake of the global economic crisis, the world is trying to chart an economic path to the future and find a "new normal." As Alexander Mirtchev and Norman A. Bailey explain in the first installment in their series "The Search for a New Global Equilibrium," inflation as a factor of global economic security has the innate capacity to upend carefully laid plans and further upset the equilibrium.