Investors can’t ignore inflation for long

The latest data suggests inflation is gathering strength. It could give a nasty jolt to markets preoccupied with trade wars, political uncertainty and weakening global growth.

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"With so much else to worry about, inflation may have moved... off investors' radar," says Richard Barley in The Wall Street Journal. But it may soon move quickly back onto it, giving markets preoccupied with trade wars, political uncertainty, and the apparent weakening of global growth, a nasty jolt.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

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