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This is a special Global Economics Chart Pack that provides clients with key analysis to make sense of the macro and market impact of the disruptions to maritime shipping. The charts in this document come from our brand-new shipping dashboard , which …
25th January 2024
The US dollar’s rebound has gained momentum this week amid hawkish rhetoric from Fed officials and more evidence out of the US – notably retail sales and jobless claims – of continued resilience in the economy there. So far this year, currency markets …
19th January 2024
We project decent near-term gains in China’s equities, think long-dated CGB yields will finish the year around their current levels, and expect the renminbi to rally against the US dollar. China’s equity, bond, and FX markets were on the back foot …
While sterling has outperformed other G10 currencies amid the dollar sell-off over the past couple of months, we expect it to reverse its gains against the greenback as short-term Gilt yields edge lower. So far this year, the pound has held up well …
16th January 2024
After a strong start to the year, the US dollar seems set to end the week broadly unchanged against most currencies, as inflation data releases out of the US this week failed to generate much of a reaction. This stalemate in currency markets has been a …
12th January 2024
We think that most major currencies in Latin American will fall against the US dollar this year. As a result, the relatively poor returns that we expect from equities in the region in local-currency terms are likely to be even worse in US dollar terms. …
The dollar’s strong start to 2024 has partly reversed today as the surprisingly weak US ISM non-manufacturing survey has more than offset another robust US non-farm payrolls report . Even so, the greenback remains up on the week as interest rate …
5th January 2024
While we estimate the US dollar remains only somewhat above “fair value”, the valuations of some other major currencies are at extreme levels. For these currencies – notably the Mexican peso and Czech koruna – we think reversion towards fair value could …
4th January 2024
The final week ahead of the holiday period is drawing to an end with the US dollar somewhat weaker across the board. Unlike last year, the BoJ’s final policy meeting proved a(nother) damp squib, with policymakers equivocating somewhat on the timing of …
22nd December 2023
As the year draws to a close, this Update sets out our answers to five of the most commonly asked questions about currency markets for the coming year. In short, we expect another year of muddling through for the dollar, a rebound in the yen, and growing …
20th December 2023
We think the 10-year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield will rise over 2024 as the Bank of Japan (BoJ) lifts its policy rate early next year and c onstraints on the JGB market ease . And while that may exert some upward pressure on bond yields in other …
The Fed’s shift away from its “higher for longer” messaging (and European central banks attempts at maintaining a hawkish stance) pushed relative interest rate expectations against the US dollar, leaving it weaker against nearly all major currencies this …
15th December 2023
The US dollar has reversed around half of the gains it made from mid-July to end-October amid a sharp fall in US Treasury yields and a general compression of risk premia across markets, leaving the greenback, in aggregate, roughly where it started the …
13th December 2023
The US dollar and the prices of major commodities, in aggregate, have often risen and fallen in tandem since 2021, in contrast to their strong inverse relationship for much of the past two decades. While we wouldn’t go as far as classifying the greenback …
12th December 2023
The greenback has rebounded this week on the back of another batch of robust data out of the US economy, including today’s non-farm payrolls report . That stands in sharp contrast to the continued weakness in the euro-zone, where data on the German …
8th December 2023
Our view about relative economic and interest rate prospects in Sweden and the euro-zone suggests that the Swedish krona’s recent rebound may prove durable. In fact, given how far below “fair value” it appears to us, we think that the krona will rise …
4th December 2023
The greenback’s grind lower has continued this week amid falling US Treasury yields and strong appetite for risk. While comments from numerous Fed speakers (including Chair Powell today) continued to point to an extended pause, PCE data and November’s …
1st December 2023
Despite a rebound over recent days, the dollar fell sharply in November and, in aggregate, is now roughly flat on the year as a whole. With interest rate expectations shifting down decisively in the US and most other major economies, we expect the rebound …
30th November 2023
In this Global Economics Update , we describe eight of the biggest risks to our economic forecasts for 2024. The unusual nature of this cycle and uncertainties surrounding the transmission of monetary policy mean that the biggest risks relate to central …
With the post-pandemic global monetary tightening cycle now drawing to a close, this Update takes stock of where interest rate expectations in the G10 economies stand and what that implies for the currency outlook over the coming quarter as more and more …
29th November 2023
Currencies were no exception to the calm across markets, and the US dollar seems set the end the week a bit lower against most currencies. While “more of the same” downbeat data out of the euro-zone weighed on the euro, most other G10 currencies …
24th November 2023
We think the yields of long-dated local-currency government bonds in Asia will generally fall further by the end of next year, and that most regional currencies will continue to make ground against the US dollar. But we suspect some of the intra-regional …
23rd November 2023
The dollar is ending the week on the back foot, with the DXY index on track for its worst week since July, after this week’s US CPI print came in softer than expected. That has reinforced the growing consensus that US inflation is on track back to target …
17th November 2023
The emerging “goldilocks” narrative is a challenge to our forecast that the dollar will appreciate a bit over the coming months while the more cyclically sensitive currencies underperform, but we continue to think that the renewed optimism about the …
During the past decade, the global economy has transitioned out of an era in which globalisation was the key driver of economic and financial relationships into one shaped by geopolitics. Previously, most governments had believed that closer economic …
16th November 2023
Growing external and domestic headwinds suggest to us that Brazilian financial markets will come under pressure over the short term and are unlikely to resume their outperformance beyond that. Brazilian assets have fared relatively well amid the ongoing …
15th November 2023
In an otherwise quiet week, the greenback seems set to close higher against most major currencies, reversing much of its decline following the October payrolls data release . We think the dollar’s rise is largely due to the renewed rise in US Treasury …
10th November 2023
High carry EM currencies have rallied as US bond yields have fallen back and risk sentiment has improved, but we still expect most of these currencies to come under renewed pressure in the coming months. Since the peak in 2-year Treasury yields on 18th …
9th November 2023
The US dollar’s struggles over the past month or so are reminiscent of the lead up to its sharp fall in Q4 of last year, but a similar slide over the coming months looks unlikely. Instead, we continue to think that the greenback will muddle through, …
After a remarkably slow October in currency markets – for all the fireworks in bond and equity markets, most major currencies were roughly unchanged on the month – November has started with a bang. Between a relatively dovish FOMC and a spate of softer US …
3rd November 2023
We think the Bank of Japan’s continued steps towards policy normalisation are consistent with somewhat higher JGB yields and a significant rebound in the yen over the coming quarters. To recap, the BoJ made another tweak to its Yield Curve Control (YCC) …
2nd November 2023
The dollar stayed strong in October but failed to add much to its broad-based rally since July. We think elevated US yields are likely to keep the greenback on the front foot, particularly if risk sentiment continues to deteriorate. However, while we …
31st October 2023
While we think the cyclical forces that have weakened the relationship between commodity prices and “commodity currencies” will fade before long, we suspect some structural factors – namely the US’s ongoing shift to becoming an energy exporter – mean that …
30th October 2023
Despite another week of broadly dollar-positive news, the greenback has continued to drift sideways – suggesting its rally since July is running out of steam. Even though US Q3 GDP came in at nearly 5% annualised growth, while data in Europe continued to …
27th October 2023
We think the Chilean peso is poised for a rebound in 2024 as the headwinds from the narrowing interest rate differential and the terms of trade deterioration reverse. The Chilean peso has underperformed nearly all other major emerging market currencies …
26th October 2023
The war between Hamas and Israel – and the potential for escalation to the wider region – has increased the uncertainty around the economic and financial market outlook, but in most scenarios is unlikely to generate a sustained hit to major asset markets. …
Amid the surge in Treasury yields and the fall in global equities, the US dollar seems set (somewhat surprisingly) to end the week broadly unchanged. In our view, the key reason the dollar has failed to rally on the back of what looks in many ways like a …
20th October 2023
While the global backdrop continues to favour the US dollar, its rally has stalled in recent weeks and we think that, absent a major deterioration in risk sentiment, the greenback will struggle to make significant further gains. So far this month, there …
19th October 2023
After another topsy-turvy week in financial markets, the dollar appears to be back on the front foot. In part, that probably reflects Thursday’s US CPI print, which came in a touch higher than expected. That led to a rebound in US Treasury yields, which …
13th October 2023
The US dollar has risen against most currencies since the start of the year, while most of our estimates of the greenback’s “fair value” are little unchanged. Taken together, this leaves the dollar somewhat overvalued in our assessment. At this point, we …
12th October 2023
Remarkably, the dollar may be about the lose its record streak of weekly gains despite a strong US payrolls report . (See Chart 1.) While the initial reaction to today’s data was another jump in the greenback, it has since given back that gain, and those …
6th October 2023
The government bond sell-off over the past three months raises uncomfortable questions around the risks of financial instability and the outlook for fiscal policy. This note takes stock of what has driven the rise in long-term sovereign bond yields and …
The sell-off in bond markets has taken a breather today, helped in part by softer data on the US labour market. However, the scale of the moves over the past week has invoked comparisons to previous financial crises that have been caused by sharp moves in …
4th October 2023
This page has been updated with additional analysis since first publication . Japan’s Ministry of Finance may have intervened in support of the yen today after the USD/JPY rate rose through the symbolic 150 level in the wake of the upside surprise in US …
3rd October 2023
The week is set to end with the US dollar a bit higher against most currencies and the DXY Index just below fresh year-to-date highs. The dollar’s latest gains coincide with yet another week of rising long-term bond yields in the US and elsewhere. But …
29th September 2023
The US dollar’s record run of 10 consecutive weekly gains has brought it to its strongest level since last December (see Chart 1), and prompted renewed talk of FX intervention in Asia. We think that market participants have now gone too far in discounting …
28th September 2023
Amid the flurry of central bank announcements, the Fed doubling down on “higher for longer” proved to be enough for the greenback to eke out small gains against most other currencies, taking the DXY index to a tenth consecutive weekly rise. While comments …
22nd September 2023
With most European G10 central banks now at, or very close to, the ends of their tightening cycles, this note examines where the European G10 currencies stand and how we see the outlook for the main euro cross-rates. In short, we think the Swiss franc …
Although high “carry” emerging market (EM) currencies have held on to most of their gains during the greenback’s recent rally, we still think the outperformance of these currencies is likely to reverse over the coming quarters amid growing headwinds for …
21st September 2023
Another week, another rise in the DXY index, which at the time of writing is on track for a ninth consecutive weekly rise. Continued robust activity data in the US and the ECB signalling the end of its rate hiking cycle accounts for the greenback’s …
15th September 2023