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Markets & Macro

Rates, inflation, debt, oil, gas, and capital flows. Written for people who have to act on what they read, not traders scrolling a terminal.

14 topics on this beat

Bond Markets30Currency Markets32Commodity Markets26Capital Markets79Emerging Markets31Corporate Bonds22Energy Markets8Prediction Markets1Oil and Gas Industry1Asian Financial Markets1Samurai Bonds1Pam Bondi1Perpetual Bonds1Stock Market71

Recent editions on this beat8

18 Jun 2026Warsh rocks bond markets: hike bets fully priced inHalf the FOMC wants to raise rates. Trump wants cuts. The bond market has chosen a side.19 Aug 2026The bond market just repriced everything30-year yields hit 2007 levels. Chips got crushed first.27 Jul 2026Oil falls as US pauses Iran strikes, againMarkets rally on a ceasefire that isn't a peace deal. Read the fine print.13 Jul 2026US and Iran trade strikes, oil surges on HormuzMarkets are pricing a shut Strait of Hormuz. That's the whole ballgame today.23 Jun 2026Starmer resigns as UK Prime MinisterPlus: SpaceX sells its first investment-grade bonds, and Taiwan's debt-fuelled rally flashes red.18 Aug 2026Tata Sons has no chairman and $120bn to deployAnthropic's revenue tripled since May. Treasury yields are back at 2007 levels.09 Aug 2026The app selling trainers is now a trading floorWhatnot bidders now behave like bond traders. GfK confidence sits at -23. The mechanics look identical once you check.03 Aug 2026Trump backs Japan on yen, markets brace for interventionIran talks resume, gold rallies, and Korea's president gets blamed for his own stock market

How Briefed covers markets and macro

The Markets & Macro desk sits at the front of every Briefed Daily. Central bank decisions, inflation prints, bond auctions, commodity shocks, currency moves, and the real-economy signals underneath them. We report what the number is, what the market did with it, and what the tape is really saying about the next six months.

The goal is not another morning terminal dump. A buy-side analyst already has a Bloomberg. What they need is context: which prints are being mispriced, which macro narratives are breaking down, and which second-order effects are showing up in corporate guidance before they show up in the data. That is the beat.

Across a typical week the desk covers Fed and ECB meetings, gilt and Treasury supply, oil and gas, industrial metals, credit spreads, earnings guidance that matters for the macro picture, housing data, employment data, and the geopolitical stories that move commodities. Plus the weekly Briefed Weekly long-read when the theme of the week is macro-shaped.

Every Markets story lands with a point of view, not a recap. If the data say the cycle has turned, we say so. If the market is priced for a scenario that will not happen, we flag it. Briefed+ subscribers get the extra block in the same edition, carrying the CPIx reading and where the pressure sits.