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This article is the fourth in a five-part series of interviews with senior bank rates and macro traders. The others – with Barclays, Citi, and Goldman – can be found here.
As inflation surged in emerging market economies last year, prompting a round of central bank rate hikes, it became increasingly clear that something similar lay in store for the developed world.
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