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I bloody well hope not, although my portfolio is ready

Central bank set to make a decision on whether to extend its latest emergency liquidity facility

Prices rose more than 25% in December amid severe economic downturn

Figures dim market expectations that interest rates will fall as soon as March

The president’s team needs to show more energy in addressing voters’ concerns

Science is delivering breakthroughs in key areas, trade is holding up and tyrants won’t last forever

New research bears little resemblance to assumptions about how the US population feels about China and the economy

Also in this week’s newsletter, BCG predicts decline in UK goods trade with EU and US

Relationship status: it’s complicated

Yields have fallen to about 8% from 9.4% in early November but some analysts are concerned by high funding costs

Ukrainian officials find US and European components in Russian equipment

Fund says libertarian president is ‘fully determined’ to bring programme back on track

Vincent Clerc says container ship attacks by Houthis could have ‘significant consequences’ for global growth

Also in today’s newsletter, DeSantis and Haley clash in the primary debate and the IMF disburses $4.7bn to Argentina

The single currency is still too often scapegoated

Tripling of green energy by 2030 within reaching distance, energy watchdog reports

Will asset purchases restart before, or after, the Treasury market gets upended?

The US economist on how boosting supply is a better way out of the inflation trap than crimping demand

Attacks on shipping show how easily global supply chains can be disrupted

Also in this newsletter: Boeing chief admits to ‘our mistake’, and new law is proposed to overturn convictions in UK’s Horizon IT scandal