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Emerging markets are underpinned by strong fundamentals and undemanding valuations and are likely to be supported by US rate cuts, which are expected to start some time in 2024.
Our latest House View provides the perfect context for four new articles looking at some of the issues behind the headlines affecting investors.
With the end in sight for the inflation fight, will the ‘last mile’ prove the hardest? Let’s look at the implications for growth and monetary policy, as well as the range of potential outcomes.
The debate around inflation remains live and centres on whether, if at all, the dynamics of price pressures have altered in recent years.
The US Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reserve Repurchase (ON RRP) facility could run out in the next few months, and concerns are emerging over the potential impact on financial markets with the US central bank maintaining restrictive monetary policies to rein in Covid-era stimulus.
Amid expectations of central bank interest-rate cuts later this year, we think there are compelling arguments for why the outlook for small and mid-sized companies is looking up and why smaller companies can often make sense on sustainability grounds.
We ask if dividend investors should consider diversifying into emerging markets.
Paul Diggle and Luke Bartholomew discuss why higher inflation volatility may be here to stay.
In this episode, we discuss the rising US inflation in January and the challenges of bringing inflation back to the target.
Lizzy Galbraith, Political Economist, looks ahead to a year of important elections.
The Eurozone economy is stagnating and the German economy in particular is facing significant cyclical and structural headwinds. We discuss why.
As a majority of the global population head to the polls this year, in this episode of the podcast we discuss what's at stake for economies and markets.
The spillover of the Israel-Hamas conflict into attacks on Red Sea shipping has led to a meaningful increase in maritime transit costs. However, our updated scenario analysis suggests this shouldn’t derail global disinflation, although it may stay the hand of central banks in the very near term.
Taiwan’s elections results are unlikely to spark an escalation in cross-strait tensions. US elections pose the biggest threat to Taiwan and US-China relations via the future credibility of ‘strategic ambiguity’, although a fraught maintenance of the status quo remains the most likely outcome.
In our first Monthly Macro Outlook video of 2024, Paul Diggle, Chief Economist, outlines market hopes for a US ‘soft landing’, the nuances of slower growth and a year of elections.