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The transformed Chinese consumption-based economy is currently rising very slowly, growing only 1.7% year-on-year in December. In contrast, fixed asset investment grew 4.9% year-to-date YoY, and production grew 4.3% YoY in December. Investment growth has been the strongest, but it is ...

Current inflation is supply-led rather than demand-led. Time and market forces will ease this current bout of high inflation. Asia and Europe could use a more accommodative policy than the U.S. For further details see: The Supply-Led Inflation Challenge

Chinese consumer, producer price increases slow. Key takeaways from the Fed’s January meeting minutes. Markets react to Russia-Ukraine tensions. For further details see: Inflation Cools In China. What Could This Mean For Other Countries?

There’s been no shortage of volatility in the markets so far this year and it doesn’t look like that is going to change any time soon. The focus has shifted slightly in recent weeks from monetary policy to geopolitics as Russian troops have built up on the Ukrainian bord...

Favorable factors such as relatively higher yields vs G7 government bonds and a defensive currency, have helped Chinese government bonds outperform in 2021. Chinese government yield spreads vs other major bond markets fell sharply in 2021, particularly so, in Q1 2021, when G7 yield cu...

Medeiros: High inflation, high interest rates, and strong commodity prices have resulted in a shift to value and away from high growth emerging market technology. Unlike the rest of the world, China was in a tightening stance in 2021 in an effort to curb excesses in the property marke...

Inflation and interest rates have been at the forefront of investors’ minds so far this year and that’s unlikely to change for some time yet. Earnings season provided a welcome and timely distraction and enabled markets to find some stability but as we saw towards the en...

The Winter Olympics have begun in China, and, as promised, the Chinese government has introduced its digital version of the Yuan, the e-CYN, to the world. The world is moving more and more into its digital future, and we are going to see many additional attempts to move the technology...

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 2.5% in US-dollar terms last year. In contrast, the MSCI World Index gained 18.5%, helped by strong US returns. China’s 2021 woes stemmed from a combination of shrinking credit availability, acute debt in the property sector and restrictive ...

Just as global economic growth slowed to an 18-month low at the start of 2022 amid rising COVID-19 infection rates, price pressures intensified. Rising inflation is also broad-based geographically. Growth will likely accelerate again globally once the worst of the Omicron wave pas...