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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 Markets2Oil and Gas Industry1Asian Financial Markets1Samurai Bonds1Stock Market73Inflation56Oil Prices53

Recent editions on this beat8

02 Sept 2026Gilt yields hit a 28-year highBond markets are having a moment. Not a good one.25 Sept 202630-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2004Goldman says AI stocks can shrug it off. The bond market disagrees.28 Sept 2026Fed says more hikes won't break AmericaNomura's chief economist thinks 4.25% is survivable. The bond market isn't so sure.01 Sept 2026Bailey tells G20: AI could crash marketsThe 30-year bond is having its worst August since 2006. Nobody's connecting the two stories. They're the same story.19 Aug 2026The bond market just repriced everything30-year yields hit 2007 levels. Chips got crushed first.02 Oct 2026A Flydubai co-pilot allegedly tried to crash a jetPlus: bond yields hit 2002 levels, Accenture proves AI isn't killing consultants11 Sept 2026Oil at $101 hands the Fed a rate hike excuseCopper doubts, SoftBank shorts get squeezed, and Barington wants Bath & Body Works sold05 Oct 2026Bolsonaro tops first round, Brazil assets set to surgePollsters got it wrong. Markets won't wait to find out why.

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.