EghtesadOnline: Buy the news and sell the soft data. That’s the conclusion drawn from a paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which suggests that financial news holds predictive power when it comes to a slew of economic data.

EghtesadOnline: World markets had a swagger about them on Tuesday as upbeat economic data and signs of a revival in inflation pushed up stocks and commodity prices and kept the dollar at a nine-month high.

EghtesadOnline: Stocks climbed with commodities and the pound jumped amid signs economies in China and the U.K. are stabilizing. The dollar advanced against most of its peers while bonds retreated before Friday’s payrolls report.