Emerging Markets Financial Risk Monitor EM Financial Risk Monitor (Apr. 2025) Higher US import tariffs and softening expectations for global growth have caused large capital outflows from EMs. But our currency crisis risk indicators suggest that EMs are well placed to weather... 30th April 2025 · 1 min read
Capital Daily Surely the next 100 days won’t be as turbulent as the last? The US stock market and the dollar have fared worse over the last hundred days than they fared during the first hundred days of all other presidential terms since 1980. What’s more, there has been an... 29th April 2025 · 5 mins read
India Chart Pack India Chart Pack (April 2025) India’s economy is emerging from its recent soft patch. Headline CPI inflation should remain close to the RBI’s 4% target over the coming months, enabling the central bank to continue easing monetary... 29th April 2025 · 1 min read
Canada Economics Update What does the election mean for Canada's economy and markets? Although the Liberals have just missed out on a majority, Prime Minister Mark Carney should still be able to implement his fiscal plans with support from the NDP or Bloc Québécois. If anything, the... 29th April 2025 · 4 mins read
FX Markets Weekly Wrap FX Weekly: Dollar rebound probably has a bit further to run Financial markets have continued to stabilise and the dollar has finally rebounded a little over the past few days. More than anything, that appears to reflect relief after the Trump administration... 25th April 2025 · 5 mins read
FX Markets Focus Rumours of the dollar’s demise: still mostly exaggerated? The sharp fall in the dollar over the past three months can for the most part be explained by a rapid reassessment of the outlook for the US economy and financial markets, rather than an imminent... 25th April 2025 · 19 mins read
Capital Daily Worst may be over for the US dollar We suspect the US dollar will recover some lost ground over the coming months as its usual relationship with rate differentials reasserts itself. 25th April 2025 · 3 mins read
Capital Daily Rally in Bunds and euro has run its course Policymakers at the ECB appear to agree with us that risks to growth and inflation are increasingly skewed to the downside, supporting our view that the 10-year German Bund yield will stay around its... 17th April 2025 · 4 mins read
FX Markets Weekly Wrap Dollar keeps sliding despite calmer markets While the turmoil across financial markets has eased a bit this week, the dollar has continued to weaken across the board. The gap between actual exchange rates and what short-term interest rate... 17th April 2025 · 5 mins read
Asset Allocation Outlook Outlook: Asset allocation in a Brave New World Our base case is that the turmoil across financial markets in the wake of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement will continue to stabilise. As such, we assume that most asset prices and the... 17th April 2025 · 21 mins read
Latin America Economics Weekly Latin America Weekly: Argentina’s new exchange rate regime, Noboa’s victory The smaller-than-expected fall in the Argentinian peso following the easing of capital controls suggests that the move has released pent-up hard currency flows back into the economy. Our sense is that... 17th April 2025 · 5 mins read
Africa Chart Pack Africa Chart Pack (Apr. 2025) Economies across Sub-Saharan Africa will likely see limited direct impact from the protectionist shift that the US is embracing. But the bigger growth worry should come from the US trade turmoil... 16th April 2025 · 0 mins read
Capital Daily Further renminbi weakness looks likely to us We think China will continue to allow the renminbi to weaken, perhaps all the way to 8.0/$ . 16th April 2025 · 4 mins read
Event Drop-In: Is the dollar’s global dominance a casualty of tariff chaos? 1745503200 The chaos over US tariffs – and the subsequent fallout in financial markets – has raised fundamental questions about the role of the US dollar within the global economy and in
FX Markets Focus Trump pushes the dollar through the looking glass; what next? The ongoing fallout across financial markets from President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement has resulted in a sharp fall in the dollar and what looks increasingly like a generalised loss of... 15th April 2025 · 19 mins read