![Wakeup call: Investors brush off high inflation](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_393,w_700,q_100/getty-USA-retail-consumer-inflation.webp)
Wakeup call: Investors brush off high inflation
Global investors were relaxed over the weekend about figures showing US inflation accelerated to 6.8% in November, its highest rate since 1982.
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Wakeup call: Evergrande defaults smoothly
Global stock and bond markets were broadly calm and mostly flat after the collapse of China's biggest apartment builder.
![Wakeup call: BusinessNZ pulls out of FPA talks](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_400,w_600,q_100/Kirk-Hope-g.webp)
Wakeup call: BusinessNZ pulls out of FPA talks
Business group says FPAs are bad for business but worse for employees, as it launches salvo against the government's 'unlawful' national pay agreements.
![Wakeup call: Dip buyers dominate](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_400,w_600,q_100/getty-nasdaq-stock-exchange.webp)
Wakeup call: Dip buyers dominate
The S&P 500 surged 2.2% and the Nasdaq was up 3.1% this morning as buyers of last week’s dip grew in confidence and fears about omicron and a Fed tightening faded.
![Bond markets in full tantrum or panic mode](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_400,w_600,q_100/Wall-Street-l.webp)
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