INCO News and Press, Columbia India Consumer From 10/29/21

The Fed will announce ‘mission accomplished’ on reaching “substantial further progress” on both inflation and employment mandates. Despite Christine Lagarde’s best efforts, the markets were not buying what she had to sell which could be extremely pro...

Wall Street still remains upbeat despite a growing energy crisis that threatens the economic recovery, widespread price increases, and mixed economic data. If energy costs seem poised to head much higher, the unbalanced global economic recovery could dent risk appetite and lead to som...

The global recovery continues but momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. Compared to our July forecast, the global growth projection for 2021 has been revised down marginally to 5.9 percent and is unchanged for 2022 at 4.9 percent. The dangerous divergence in economic pro...

India faced many pressures earlier in the year. Indian equity market has bounced back strongly and is now outperforming all other major markets globally. Optimism is also building around India’s housing market, and demand for housing construction offers another strong sourc...

Risks to US economic recovery are growing as inflation pressures intensify. The German election was won narrowly by the SPD, as expected, but coalition talks will take some time. Key for the UK at the moment is interest rate expectations with the market’s pricing in three b...

Why we believe China’s strategic reorientation changes the case for investment rather than removing it, and also highlights the growing diversity of opportunity in the rest of Asia. As China moves further up the value chain, policy is shifting from encouraging consumption and i...

Whether or not you should invest in “emerging markets” today really comes down to one thing, and that one thing is China. There is a great deal of uncertainty about the co-evolution of China’s markets with those of the US, Europe and non-China Asia-Pacific in the ...

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is rattling markets and poses real risks, but we should not be distracted from the successful impact of vaccinations. The effectiveness of vaccinations is the reason U.S. real GDP is back to pre-crisis levels amid this still-raging pandemic. Gl...

Nearly 51% of manufacturing and service sector businesses report output to be same or higher than levels seen before COVID-19 outbreak. Manufacturers more likely than services firms to report a recovery in output. UK below global average, as China far outpaces the rest of the worl...

The Asia-Pacific region experienced a recession in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Asia-Pacific GDP contracting by an estimated 1.1%. During the second half of 2020, many Asia-Pacific economies had shown a significant recovery in economic momentum. However, recovery mome...