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Financial markets have been much more unsettled in recent weeks largely thanks to a “tighter for longer” narrative from the US Fed and a further steep climb in US Treasury yields. In this week’s charts of the week publication we focus on this and other issues including:

·         Slowing world trade growth

·         Ebbing consumer confidence

·         Broad money supply contractions in the euro area

·         US household balance sheets

·         US corporate balance sheets

·         Female labour force participation rates