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We expect a 50bp rate hike from Israel’s central bank (Monday) August Flash PMIs for the euro-zone and UK may point towards recession (Tuesday) We doubt that Fed Chair Powell will spring a surprise at Jackson Hole (Friday) Key Market Themes Dividend …
19th August 2022
Despite its recent resurgence, we still expect the S&P 500 to fall over the remainder of this year. The S&P 500 has continued to add to its gains this month . It is now more than 15% above its mid-June trough, and has unwound more than half of the losses …
In the UK, we suspect retail sales volumes declined for the fifth time in six months in July … … and the fiscal position was probably a bit worse than the OBR’s forecast (07.00 BST) Clients can catch-up on our Drop-In on Europe and the impact of …
18th August 2022
Fed’s July meeting minutes likely to emphasise commitment to further hikes (Wed. 19.00 BST) We expect the Norges Bank to raise its policy rate by 50bp to 1.75% (09.00 BST) Turkey’s central bank will probably leave its one-week repo rate on hold at 14% …
17th August 2022
UK CPI inflation probably rose further in July (07.00 BST) We think euro-zone economic growth remained positive in Q2 (10.00 BST) US retail sales probably edged higher in July (13.30 BST) Key Market Themes We think equity and commodity prices will …
The UK unemployment rate probably remained flat in June (07.00 BST) Canada’s CPI inflation may have dropped back in July (13.30 BST) We think US industrial production edged higher last month (15.15 BST) Key Market Themes We expect external and domestic …
15th August 2022
US activity data are likely to show the economy began the third quarter in decent health … … but activity data for China will probably show the recovery losing some steam (Mon.) UK Inflation probably rose to nearly 10% last month (Wed.) Key Market Themes …
12th August 2022
Brazil’s stock market has fared better than most this year, but we forecast it to fall ~15% over the rest of 2022. And while we expect it to rebound over the following couple of years, we think falling commodity prices and mounting fiscal risks will limit …
The anticipation of quick reversals of central bank rate hikes has probably supported equity markets of late, but we suspect investors have become overly optimistic and still think equity prices will end this year, in general, below their current levels. …
We think that UK GDP contracted in June due to temporary working day effects (07.00BST) Euro-zone industrial output probably rose in June, but prospects look gloomy (10.00 BST) Easing inflationary pressures likely aided US consumer confidence this month …
11th August 2022
We expect Mexico’s central bank to hike by 75bp (19.00 BST) Sign up here for our Drop In on the challenges facing economies in Emerging Europe... ...and here for a replay of today’s Drop In on the July US CPI data Key Market Themes Despite dropping on the …
10th August 2022
We held a Drop In yesterday outlining our latest forecasts for global financial markets. This Update answers some questions that we received during that Drop In but didn’t have time to address. What would have to go right for bond and equity markets to be …
We think CPI inflation in China edged higher in July … (02.00 BST) … while headline inflation in the US probably fell back a bit (13.30 BST) Policymakers in Thailand are likely to hike rates for the first time this year (08.00 BST) Key Market Themes …
9th August 2022
We think that inflation rose in Mexico last month, but dropped back in Brazil Clients can register for Tuesday’s Drop-Ins on oil prices and the Gulf economies here … … and on whether the recent rallies in equity and bond markets will last here Key Market …
8th August 2022
We think credit growth in China slowed on the back of mortgage boycotts in July (Tue.) US headline CPI inflation may have fallen in July, but we think the core rate rose (Wed.) We expect rate hikes in Mexico, Peru, and Thailand Key Market Themes After a …
5th August 2022
While China-Taiwan tensions haven’t yet caused ructions in global financial markets, any escalation that threatened to disrupt trade and/or financial flows almost certainly would. This Update explores the potential ramifications of such an event across …
We expect central banks in Romania and India to hike policy rates We think US non-farm payrolls rose by around 250,000 in July… (13.30 BST) … and clients can sign up here for our Drop-In on the Employment Report (15.00 BST) Key Market Themes While the …
4th August 2022
We doubt the recent rallies in global bond and equity markets will be sustained over the remainder of the year. While we no longer think the 10-year US Treasury yield will exceed its June peak, we still expect it to rise as the Fed delivers a bit more …
3rd August 2022
We expect the Bank of England to hike by 50bp... (12.00 BST) ...while the Czech central bank could raise its policy rate by 25bp (13.30 BST) Sign up for our Drop-In on the big themes in EMs, including US-China tensions, here Key Market Themes We think …
The spreads of sovereign dollar bonds over US Treasuries are in distressed territory in almost a third of EMs covered in the JP Morgan EMBI Index, with the majority of those being frontier markets. In this note, we answer five key questions on default …
We think the Caixin Services PMI edged lower last month (02.45 BST) Inflation in Turkey probably exceeded 80% in July (08.00 BST) We expect Brazil’s central bank to hike rates by 50bp (22.30 BST) Key Market Themes Although the US dollar has faltered over …
2nd August 2022
We expect the RBA to hike its policy rate by 50bp, to 1.85% (04.30 BST) Euro-zone retail sales volumes probably declined in May (10.00 BST) Clients can register for this week’s drop ins on EMs , the BoE and July’s US payroll report Key Market Themes We …
1st August 2022
We continue to expect the yields of 10-year emerging market (EM) local currency (LC) sovereign bonds to rise over the rest of 2022. But we anticipate smaller rises than we did previously, given our downward revisions to our Treasury yield forecast, and …
We expect 50bp rate hikes from the RBA (Tue.) and BoE (Thu.) Central banks in Brazil, India, Romania and Czechia also set to hike next week Employment report may ease fears that the US economy is already in recession (Fri.) Key Market Themes The surge in …
29th July 2022
We still expect a higher 10-year Treasury yield, lower S&P 500 and stronger US dollar over the remainder of the year, but have pared back our forecasts for the rise in yields and fall in equities. In particular, we now suspect the 10-year yield is …
Global economic and market analysis from Capital Economics We expect euro-zone GDP probably rose a little bit last quarter … … and intense price pressures kept regional inflation high in July (10.00 BST) We think that Colombia’s central bank will hike its …
28th July 2022
Global economic and market analysis from Capital Economics We expect the Fed to hike the fed funds rate by 75bp, to 2.25-2.50%(19.00 BST) We think the US economy expanded by just above 1% q/q annualised last quarter (13.30 BST) Register for our Drop-In on …
27th July 2022
We expect the Fed to hike rates by another 75bp, to 2.25-2.50% (19.00 BST) We think inflation in Australia accelerated further in Q2 (01.30 BST) Clients can register for our Drop-In on our latest Global Economic Outlook here (15.00 BST) Key Market Themes …
26th July 2022
Global economic and market analysis from Capital Economics Inflation probably edged down in Brazil in the first half of July (13.00 BST) We expect Hungary’s central bank to hike rates by 100bp (13.00 BST) Clients can register here for a Drop-In on our …
25th July 2022
We think US GDP expanded in Q2 (Thu.) Japan’s industrial output probably bounced back in June (Fri.) Euro-zone headline CPI inflation may have fallen in July (Fri.) Key Market Themes We doubt bad news for the US economy will continue to be good news for …
22nd July 2022
Headline CPI inflation probably eased in Japan in June (00.30 BST) Rising prices probably weighed on June retail sales volumes in the UK (07.00 BST) We expect July’s flash PMIs to show that activity weakened in the euro-zone & the UK Key Market Themes …
21st July 2022
Even though equity and bond valuations in frontier markets and a few smaller emerging markets (EMs) have fallen sharply, we think the risk of contagion is low and that most EMs will hold up relatively well. EM financial assets have come under serious …
While the valuation of the S&P 500 has fallen a long way, we don’t expect it to rebound any time soon; this is one reason we expect the index to continue to struggle over at least the remainder of this year. The backdrop for US corporate earnings looks …
We expect lift-off from the ECB and a rate hike in South Africa too… …but think that central banks in Indonesia, Turkey and Japan will stand pat Gas exports to Europe via NordStream are scheduled to resume tomorrow Key Market Themes The release of strong …
20th July 2022
We doubt China will lower its LPR despite weakness in the housing sector (02.15 BST) Inflation in the UK probably rose to a new 40-year high in June (07.00 BST) Clients can sign up for the Drop-In on our UK economic outlook here Key Market Themes While we …
19th July 2022
We think that the UK labour market remained healthy in May (07.00 BST) US housing starts may point to a further drop in construction activity in June (13.30 BST) We expect a 100bp rate hike from Nigeria’s central bank Key Market Themes Optimistic …
18th July 2022
UK CPI inflation may have risen further in June (Tue.) We expect a 25bp hike from the ECB next week... (Thu.) ...while the Bank of Japan could widen its tolerance band for the 10-year JGB yield (Thu.) Key Market Themes We think that several data releases …
15th July 2022
While a lot of attention has focussed naturally on the potential implications for the JGB market of a further tweaking of the Bank of Japan’s Yield Curve Control (YCC), the country’s huge investment in markets overseas means that they too might …
The valuations of euro-zone assets are now very low relative to those in the US, but we don’t think that’s a reason to expect the former to outperform the latter any time soon. The valuation of euro-zone assets has continued to fall over the past few …
Activity data from China likely to show a continued rebound from lockdowns (03.00 BST) US activity data may point to a further slowdown in growth in June Clients can view our new Oil Market dashboard on CE Interactive here Key Market Themes The latest …
14th July 2022
We think “quantitative tightening” (QT) may put upward pressure on long-dated Treasury yields over the coming years. But we think that changes in investors’ expectations for the fed funds rate will remain a far more important driver of these yields and …
We expect Chile’s central bank to hike by 50bp (Wed. 23.00 BST) Inflation in Sweden probably rose further above target last month (Thurs. 07.00 BST) Clients can watch our Drop-In on the latest US CPI surprise here Key Market Themes While we expect …
13th July 2022
Consumer prices in the US are likely to have risen again in June (13.30 BST) Growth of exports out of China probably edged lower in June We expect interest rate hikes in Canada, New Zealand, Korea and Chile Key Market Themes While the euro ’s rapid fall …
12th July 2022
Consumer price inflation in India likely to have risen further in June (13.00 BST) We expect Hungary’s central bank to raise its base rate by 200bp, to 9.75% Germany’s ZEW investor sentiment indicator probably fell again in July (10.00 BST) Key Market …
11th July 2022
Consumer prices in the US probably jumped yet again in June (Wednesday) Official data may show a contraction in China’s economy in Q2 (Friday) We expect interest rate hikes in Canada, New Zealand, Korea and Chile Key Market Themes June’s US Employment …
8th July 2022
While the largest increases in corporate spreads in the US and the euro-zone may now be behind us, we suspect that a challenging economic backdrop will keep spreads elevated in both places for some time . The option-adjusted spreads (OAS) of ICE BofA ML’s …
We think US non-farm payroll employment slowed to a decent 250,000 in June (13.30 BST) Headline inflation probably picked up further in Brazil last month (13.00 BST) Meanwhile employment growth in June probably also slowed in Canada (13.30 BST) Key Market …
7th July 2022
We suspect that the latest political turmoil in the UK adds to the reasons to expect a renewed rise in the 10-year Gilt yield, weakness in the pound, and continued trouble for the FTSE 100. The market reaction to the resignation of Boris Johnson as Prime …
Despite a rebound over the past day or so, 10-year developed market (DM) government bond yields have fallen substantially in recent weeks. This has coincided with investors lowering their expectations for peak policy rates and anticipating subsequent rate …
Fed minutes likely to solidify expectations for a 75bp hike this month (Wed, 19.00 BST) We expect 150bp and 75bp interest rate hikes in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, respectively Clients can sign up here for our Drop-in on the outlook for EM Currencies this …
6th July 2022
