Final manufacturing PMIs for November confirm that global growth is slowing, with activity weaker in the euro-zone, Japan and China. However, the further slump in the oil price, to around $70 per...

Although the Fed ended its asset purchases in October, and is set to start raising policy rates in the coming months, global monetary conditions will remain ultra-loose as the ECB and BoJ undertake...

The drop in global commodity prices, coupled with a slowdown in global growth, will push headline inflation rates in a number of economies into negative territory. But, other than Japan, the risk of a...

Business surveys, such as the Purchasing Managers’ Indices published by Markit, provide a timely guide to the health of individual economies, but they are not directly comparable across countries. In...