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Australian inflation is back on the rise, making a near-term rate cut less likely and stagflation a possibility.

Weekly musings by your editor. Let me guess: you thought the world was about to come to an end, didn’t you?

Reporting season has finished, but next week sees a number of companies go ex-dividend, elsewhere the focus returns to economic data releases.

India is moving from exporter to importer of sugar while more of Brazil’s output should go into ethanol production, all of which Barclays sees as supportive for sugar prices.

If gold is being bought through fear, what might happen if fear abates?

Capital expenditure for the December quarter in Australia has come out stronger than expected.

The Chinese economy should recover later this year as the government’s stimulus package impacts and as G3 economies also improve.

President Obama delivered an inspirational speech, but it appears it will be yet up to the Treasury Secretary to provide some detail.

Commodity prices continue to nosedive and Australian stocks are tracking the losses, with the fate of the AUD tied to both.

Gone are the days of a gradually rising Chinese currency. At least for now.