China regulation risk – looking through the noise
Chinese equity markets have seen considerable volatility in recent weeks, culminating in heavy negative moves down in technology…
Corporate earnings season has been very good so far… this bodes well for markets
Corporate earnings season for the second quarter of 2021 (April – June period) has started, and it has…
Global corporate tax – should investors worry?
Group of 20 (G20) finance ministers last week backed a historic tax plan designed to stop multinational corporations…
Never sell a quiet market
Equity markets in the US and Europe have been range bound since May. A range bound market is…
Inflation is coming!? Markets think otherwise…
A useful way to measure the market’s expectations for inflation is to look at the difference between US…
Fed: “growth strong, inflation transitory” / Europe committed to further stimulus
Eager to get a clearer picture of when central banks will begin tapering stimulus measures, markets these days…
Fed: higher inflation “transitory” but normalisation on the horizon
It has been some weeks since we last discussed rising US inflation data and some economists’ interpretation of…
World bank upgrades forecast / New macro-economic data
Following on from the OECD’s global economic outlook review, which we mentioned in our last Weekly Brief, the…
US makes further gains / Europe finally sees turnaround
Latest US macro-economic data confirmed the impressive pace of the country’s economic recovery. The US economy expanded at…
Europe recovery kicks into gear / China’s PR problems might get (much) worse
Backward-facing data in Europe remain bleak, but forward-looking indicators are now turning more optimistic. The Flash Eurozone PMI…