Episodes

6 days ago
6 days ago
Lingering concerns about US debt ceiling negotiations have left financial markets on the back foot over the past few days. But incoming economic data this week have not helped. With that in mind our charts this week offer some perspectives on the following factors:
· Market expectations for Fed policy
· Global growth surprises and copper prices
· Economic growth in Asia’s industrialised economies
· Semiconductor inventories
· Inflation and energy prices
· Core inflation (and energy prices)

Friday May 19, 2023
Episode - 19 May 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Financial markets were a little unsettled earlier this week but heightened optimism about the willingness of US politicians to raise the US debt ceiling has calmed some fears. Incoming economic data, however, have taken a turn for the worse and there is arguably now mounting evidence to suggest that tighter monetary policy is beginning to exact a heavier toll. Against this backdrop, our charts this week home in on:
· The US yield curve
· Private sector deleveraging
· China’s disappointing reopening phase
· Japan’s economy in Q1
· The UK labour market
· Inflation, profits and sales

Friday May 12, 2023
Podcast Episode - 12 May 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
This week’s key release, namely April’s US CPI data, more or less met market expectations while on the policy front the Bank of England matched forecasts too in hiking the Bank rate by 25bps. Otherwise the stability of the US banking sector and debt ceiling politics were a couple of themes for investors to additionally focus on.

Thursday May 04, 2023

Friday Apr 28, 2023
Podcast Episode - 28 April 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Financial market jitters have resumed in recent days in part because of renewed concern about funding pressures in the US banking sector. Forward-looking US economic data have additionally disappointed expectations and continue to flag non-negligible risks of a recession in the period ahead.

Friday Apr 21, 2023
Episode - 21 April 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Concerns in financial markets about the health of the US and European banking sectors have continued to ebb in recent days leaving more familiar macro factors to re-take centre stage. The focus this week in particular has been on the Q1 US earnings season but some stronger-than-expected GDP data from China and another positive inflation surprise from the UK were also in the limelight.

Friday Apr 14, 2023
Episode - 14 April 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
The IMF has trimmed its global growth outlook for this year and flagged downside risks from a potential further flare up of financial instability. Lingering concerns about high inflation and tight labour markets were also emphasised, not least because a further monetary policy response might re-ignite financial market tensions. In our charts this week we pick up on these themes.

Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Podcast - 6 April 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
The additional liquidity support that’s been offered by central banks, and the Fed in particular, coupled with heightened expectations of a pivot toward looser monetary policy have allayed concerns about banking sector stress in recent weeks. Many observers, nevertheless, are questioning whether the conditions that ultimately warrant this additional policy support will be positive for growth and profitability in the period ahead. Many of our charts this week weigh in on this debate.

Friday Mar 31, 2023
Podcast - 31 March 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
A more positive mood in financial markets has unfolded so far this week as fears about the health of the world’s banking sector have ebbed. For how long that more positive mood endures is, however, still open to much debate. Most of our charts this week we weigh in on that debate with some fresh insights on the recent dataflow.

Friday Mar 24, 2023
24 March 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Financial market sentiment has improved over the last few days thanks to reassuring communications and targeted policy support from central banks as well as a high profile acquisition in Switzerland. Although the Fed has subsequently enacted a 25bps rate hike, Chairman Powell has further assuaged market fears by suggesting the US tightening cycle is nearly complete.

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