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Market commentary – February 2024

Date: 29/02/2024

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Overall, G10 central banks continue to remain in a highly data dependent approach before implementing rate cuts but are unlikely to hike rates further. Recently, this has led to a …

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Market commentary – January 2024

Date: 31/01/2024

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Overall, G10 central banks have shifted their focus towards the discussion of how long to keep rates at their current restrictive levels. A data dependent approach seems pervasive, with policymakers …

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Will the Chinese renminbi supplant the US dollar?

Date: 14/06/2023

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Markets are no stranger to debate over US dollar hegemony, and history serves as a useful reminder that new reserve currency regimes can occur every century or two. Shifting geopolitical …

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A century of inflation

Date: 03/10/2022

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Inflation in much of the developed world is higher than at any point in the past thirty years. Therefore, we may be able to draw valuable lessons from comparing today’s …

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Reshoring in perspective: rethinking global supply chains and the macroeconomic implications

Date: 23/09/2022

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The past several years has been marred by a litany of geopolitical and crisis events which has tested global supply chain resilience, highlighting the intricacy and interdependencies of international value …

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US-Japan inflation and rates policy: why so different?

Date: 22/09/2022

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Explaining the inflation and rates divergence Low and stable inflation in Japan this year (3% headline compared to 8.2% in US) has been a puzzling aspect of the Japanese economy …

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