China Data Response External Trade (Jul.) China’s July trade data suggest that global demand is still strong while the domestic economy is flagging. With the trade surplus not far off a record high, China's critics overseas are unlikely to... 10th August 2010 · 1 min read
UK Economics Weekly Slow progress on bank lending The interim results published by the major UK banks last week showed that RBS and Lloyds are on track to meet their new lending commitments to the Government. But these lending targets have become... 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Japan Economics Weekly What can the Bank of Japan do? The yen has continued to strengthen, while the economic outlook seems to be weakening. But the Bank of Japan is probably not in a position to do much in response on either front at its meeting this... 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economics Weekly Is there any hope for euro-zone consumers? On the whole, the news on the euro-zone was fairly good again last week. Industrial figures from Germany confirmed that Q2 was a very good quarter and the final release of July’s euro-zone PMI surveys... 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Asia Economics Weekly What will the Bank of Korea do? The Bank of Korea (BoK) meets on Thursday and the question is whether its policy rate will be hiked for the second month in a row. Developments since the previous meeting have been broadly positive... 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Latin America Economics Update Mexican inflation falls again, rate hikes still some way off 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economics Update Political turmoil unlikely to threaten Italy's public finances Since Italy has already put in place measures to reduce its budget deficit over the next couple of years, the current political uncertainties do not pose a major risk to the near-term outlook for the... 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
China Economics Update Inflation Monitor (Jul.) Widespread flooding may have pushed food prices higher last month, but sharp falls in inflation are not too far away. 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Latin America Economics Update Peru surprises again, rates heading for 3.5% by year-end 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Japan Data Response Bank Credit & EWS (Jul.) The current conditions index of the Economy Watchers Survey (EWS) climbed back to a multi-year high in July. The survey raises some questions about the outlook, but, overall, its high level should be... 9th August 2010 · 1 min read
Latin America Economics Update Brazilian inflation dragged down by food prices 6th August 2010 · 1 min read
