Capital Daily Property sector woes not the only headwind for China’s equities The weakness in China’s real estate sector is only one of a number of reasons why we think that the country’s equities will remain under pressure over the coming years 9th November 2021 · 6 mins read
FX Markets Update We think that the yen remains vulnerable to rising US rates We expect the yen to weaken a bit more against the US dollar as we think that government bond yields in the US will resume their rise before long. 9th November 2021 · 2 mins read
Capital Daily Some more thoughts on the puzzling behaviour of Treasuries Last week’s behaviour of the Treasury market is puzzling for two reasons. First, a further paring back of expectations for tighter monetary policy following the Fed’s mid-week meeting might reasonably... 8th November 2021 · 5 mins read
Europe Chart Pack Recovery slowed by supply chain problems Economic growth has slowed sharply as output approaches its pre-pandemic level. We think that GDP will probably increase by only around 0.5% q/q in the final quarter, down from 2.2% in Q3... 8th November 2021 · 12 mins read
Capital Daily We doubt the post-payrolls fall in Treasury yields will continue The decline in long-dated Treasury yields following the publication of the latest US employment report today is hard to justify, and we do not expect it to last. 5th November 2021 · 6 mins read
FX Markets Weekly Wrap Dollar rallies & sterling drops on confusing BoE messaging After another week of wild swings in short-term interest rate markets, the US dollar is ending the week stronger against most major currencies. On a trade-weighted basis it is now near its strongest... 5th November 2021 · 8 mins read
Global Markets Update We doubt Brazilian assets will rebound any time soon While Brazil’s bond and stock markets have struggled lately, we don’t think either are set for a significant rebound any time soon, and suspect both will remain under pressure in the run-up to next... 5th November 2021 · 5 mins read
Latin America Economics Update We expect the Brazilian real to remain under pressure We think that the Brazilian real will weaken a bit further against the US dollar over the next year, as fiscal risks and deteriorating terms of trade continue to weigh on the currency. In view of the... 4th November 2021 · 4 mins read
Capital Daily Three key points on the latest round of central bank meetings Over the past three days, the BoE, the Fed, and the RBA all delivered relatively dovish policy announcements, pushing back, to varying degrees, against the relatively aggressive policy rate paths... 4th November 2021 · 7 mins read
Asset Allocation Update Reading the runes of relative valuation within the US stock market One reason to think that the performance of the US stock market will underwhelm, at least in the long run, is that some of the gaps between the valuations of its most highly and lowly valued companies... 4th November 2021 · 3 mins read
Capital Daily Two points on US corporate earnings and the stock market We think the earnings picture looks better for some sectors of the stock market than others, but overall it is likely to support only limited gains in equities over the next couple of years. 3rd November 2021 · 7 mins read
Global Markets Update We think DM yield curves will steepen again While the recent rise in the yields of short-dated developed market (DM) government bonds looks overdone to us, we still think that the yields of long-dated bonds will resume their rise. 3rd November 2021 · 4 mins read
Emerging Europe Economics Update Turkey: comparisons with the 2018 currency crisis The economic and political backdrop in Turkey is eerily similar to that which preceded the currency crisis in 2018, although one key difference now is that the lira doesn’t appear to be fundamentally... 3rd November 2021 · 4 mins read
Capital Daily Investors’ expectations and the outlook for DM monetary policy Although near-term inflationary pressures may prompt most developed market (DM) central banks to bring forward their plans to normalise policy a bit, we continue to think that most will raise rates... 2nd November 2021 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily We still expect E-Z peripheral spreads to remain low While the spreads of 10-year euro-zone “peripheral” government bonds have risen sharply since the ECB’s policy announcement last Thursday, we still expect them to remain very low over the next few... 1st November 2021 · 6 mins read
Commodities Update We don’t expect dollar/oil correlation to stay positive for long Despite their recent positive correlation, we think that oil and the dollar will go in opposite directions before long: we continue to think that oil prices will fall back as the supply situation... 1st November 2021 · 4 mins read