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After a promising start to the year, China’s economy is now facing its worst disruption since the beginning of the pandemic. With China unlikely to give up its zero-COVID stance, we expect another month of disruption in the mainland before the situation normalizes in May. C...

2021 was another record year for solar PV generation additions globally. 2022 is set to be an even stronger year with 32% year-on-year growth. Josefin Berg reviews the outlook for solar PV in 2022, the challenges to growth, and summarizes the long-term prospects for solar power. ...

Chinese consumer prices were flat from February 2022 to March, even though gasoline and energy costs predictably skyrocketed. Apart from materials costs and those in other commodities, producer prices have been decelerating and, in many cases, outright declining. Total foreign res...

The coming days are eventful. And that is with the known unknown, Russia's actions in Ukraine, held in abeyance. The ECB finds itself in a pickle as it meets on April 14! Consumer inflation surged to 7.5% in March (preliminary estimate) from 5.9% in February. The US reports prices...

Defaults in China real estate have been unprecedented—is policy support forthcoming and what will this market look like in the future? On March 16, the State Council’s financial stability and development committee, chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, helped improve market dy...

Gold’s Q1 performance was primarily driven by rapidly rising inflation, higher interest rates, and unexpected geopolitical risk. The post-COVID economic recovery and supply-side disruptions, which have been exacerbated by the Russia–Ukraine war, will likely keep inflatio...

Business costs are now rising at a rate not seen since 2008. Input cost inflation accelerated worldwide in both manufacturing and services. COVID-19 containment measures have been almost completely removed in the UK and US, though many restrictions persist in the eurozone. F...

The Ukraine invasion and resulting sanctions have led to a steep downturn in the Russian economy. Rising backlogs were most commonly reported in the US and across the Eurozone. Growth is proving encouragingly resilient, but the March survey data indicate that risks have tilted to ...

COVID outbreaks in China have the potential to further disrupt global supply chains and growth rates that equity investors are sensitive to. China has demonstrated an encouraging, improved ability to adapt lockdowns to unfolding outbreak data, adjusting COVID testing and localized res...

Inflation expectations have kept the Federal Reserve center stage as they commenced their interest rate rising cycle in March. The war in Ukraine and Omicron’s spread in China impacted inflation and supply chains differently, but both delay supply chain normalization. Regar...