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Summary The ECB hiked and signalled more to come but markets rallied, seeing it as more appreciative of the downside growth risks. Staying vague on quantitative tightening has helped sovereign spreads, and the ECB chose less-disruptive balance sheet tweaks as first steps. It f...

Summary With inflationary pressures and recessionary fears remaining top-of-mind, equity managers see no short-term end to the bumpy ride in markets. One of the key risks cited by equity managers in our third-quarter report is the possibility of inflation remaining stuck at high l...

Summary Business investment and employment look set to also deteriorate amid the drop in confidence and signs of excess capacity developing. The US economic downturn gathered significant momentum in October, according to the flash S&P Global PMI data. A further uncertainty...

Summary Here are my big three for investors to consider in the fourth quarter of 2022: recessionary fears, high inflation, and slowing growth. As we analyze the risk of recession in the United States, we must consider whether the country can shift into a more normal expansion. ...

Summary Germany reported the steepest economic contraction while growth in France merely stalled. Excluding pandemic lockdown months, the latest reading was the lowest since April 2013. The backlog decline was most marked in Germany, whereas France reported rising outstanding ...

Summary The recession we see from Federal Reserve rate hikes eclipses any impact from U.S. midterm elections. We stay underweight developed market (DM) stocks. Yields rose and stocks rallied off lows as markets mulled the scope of central bank rate hikes amid a “whatever it...

Summary Every day that the Nord Stream pipeline doesn’t run as expected deepens an energy standoff between Russia and the EU. The EU in May ratified a huge policy initiative to accelerate its clean energy transition and increase Europe’s energy independence from Russ...

Summary Wall Street will pay close attention to the first look at third-quarter GDP. This is the critical week for guidance from mega-cap tech that will either make or break risk appetite. A new week will bring a new Prime Minister in the UK, the third in two months, following...

Summary Contrary to the run-ups to the July and September meetings, there hasn’t been any publicly debated controversy on the size of the rate hike. Confidence indicators have continued to drop, while hard data points at a very mild contraction of the eurozone economy in th...

Summary There is more evidence of how European central banks are equalizing their monetary gold reserves proportionally to Gross Domestic Product. The fact that several European central banks (The Netherlands, Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland) repatriated gold in recent y...