Focused Thinking
From hard policies to trade routes, the causes and effects of volatility are connected across the planet. To recognise the opportunities and risks, know how to pick the triggers to watch from the grey swans.
Volatility
Companies and investors set to benefit from new issuance of convertible bonds as they provide flexible finance solutions to corporates and high returns to investors.
1 min read | June 2020
Economics
How have the Antipodes navigated COVID19 so well, and what are the next steps for their economy?
18 min podcast | May 2020
Volatility
Craig Chan our Global Head of FX Strategy discusses what his thoughts are for the upcoming US Treasury FX report
9 min podcast | May 2020
Economics
Basic strategy likely to involve shift to sectors with high intrinsic growth rate (alpha)
3 min read | April 2020
Economics
Damocles is based on a noise-to-signals approach in which we use eight key indicators to predict currency crises in 30 emerging market (EM) countries; this approach has correctly predicted 67% of the 54 crises since 1996.
2 min read | April 2020
Economics
The top market moving events that should be on your radar. Including the US Presidential election, trade talks, rate cuts & QE, Brexit and budgets, and green shoots in market survey data.
5 min video | January 2020
Economics
What's in store for the Euro Area as we move into 2020?
2 min video | January 2020
Economics
After surging in 2010-11, global food prices have been on a downtrend, but this can quickly change.
5 min video | December 2019
Economics
Among its struggling European peers, how has France managed to stay ahead of the game?
3 min read | November 2019
Central Banks
Contrary to our expectations of a recovery starting in Q3, high-frequency indicators have plunged and domestic credit conditions remain tight amid weak global demand. As a result, India’s economic recovery is expected to be delayed and the subsequent pickup is expected to be sub-par.
2 min video | November 2019
Central Banks
Expectations are growing that the BOJ will decide to further loosen monetary policy.
5 min read | October 2019
Volatility
We update and expand the scope of our analysis for the impact for global automakers, and the intensity of the fallout from a hard Brexit.
2 min read | October 2019
Economics
We have been downbeat on the global economic outlook, primarily due to our views on US-China trade frictions. Prior to the trade truce in Osaka, we established our base case in which the US imposes 25% tariffs on all Chinese imports and China retaliates before the end of the year. We stand by this forecast as tariff threats continue to escalate.
2 min read | September 2019