US producer prices unchanged in July

US producer prices unchanged in July

US producer prices unchanged in July
The island republic is bouncing back from a difficult 2025, and investor confidence is high; however, structural issues remain. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. Looking to bounce back after a disappointing 2025, the Dominican Republic’s economy still faces significant hurdles, including the conflict in the Middle East and internal…
Comparing Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCLT 0.22%) and Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF (VGLT 0.26%) highlights a choice between the high credit safety of sovereign debt and the yield premium offered by investment-grade corporate bonds. Both funds serve as long-duration anchors, focusing on fixed-income maturities between 10 and 25 years. While VGLT holds sovereign debt…
Innovation Jul 15, 2026 Gabriela Ramos and Emilija Stojmenova Duh AI systems are now powerful enough to threaten critical infrastructure, financial systems, and national security. Rather than becoming shareholders in AI companies, as US President Donald Trump has proposed, governments should invest in…
Behavioral interventions have become central to modern public policy, but their empirical promise remains contested because estimated treatment effects often appear small. We argue that a policy response is economically meaningful only relative to the response generated by alternative policies. We assemble more than 1,200 estimates from over 600 studies comparing “nudges” and traditional price…
7 August 2026 Chart 1 Total assets of credit institutions headquartered in the EU (EUR billions) Source: ECBNote: Data for all reference periods relate to the EU27. Due to the unavailability of Q1 2026 data for Denmark at the time of publication, Denmark’s Q4 2025 figures have been used as a proxy in the calculation…
Commerzbank’s Dr. Henry Hao argues China’s housing market remains in structural stagnation five years after the Evergrande crisis. National prices follow an L-shaped path, with a K-shaped divergence between Tier-1 and lower-tier cities. Weak demand, tighter funding and demographics mean real estate will no longer be China’s primary growth engine as Beijing redirects capital to…