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The EU-US Tariff Deal Removes Friction Where It Mattered Least, and Leaves Friction Where It Mattered Most

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The EU-US Tariff Deal Removes Friction Where It Mattered Least, and Leaves Friction Where It Mattered Most

European lawmakers agreed to remove certain US-import tariffs as part of the broader transatlantic deal. The categories cleared are not the ones doing the macro work.

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The Indian Rupee at a Record Low Tests How Far the RBI Will Go Before Adding Capital Controls

The Indian Rupee at a Record Low Tests How Far the RBI Will Go Before Adding Capital Controls

The rupee's slide to record lows is putting India's central bank in a familiar but uncomfortable position — and capital-controls speculation is now part of the conversation.

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The Indian rupee's slide to a record low against the dollar has reopened the debate over how India's central bank will respond when standard FX intervention is no longer doing enough. The Reserve Bank of India has been steady intervenor through this cycle, but speculation that tighter currency controls could enter the toolkit has grown notably louder over t