Ahead of the Curve, Q1 2023

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Fast reading: In our baseline scenario, global growth will continue to slow in 2023, reflecting a continuation of the themes that dominated 2022. Inflation has moderated but is still running at elevated levels, significantly eroding real disposable incomes. More importantly, the sharp tightening of monetary policy that major central banks (the Federal Reserve notably) implemented […]

Direction of rates hangs over equities rebound

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Sustainable Global Equity Report, Q1 2023

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China’s ‘great reopening’

Fiorino: Many banks, multiple outcomes

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Anything can happen. Or, according to one interpretation of quantum mechanics, everything that can happen, does happen. The so-called ‘many worlds’ postulate, first floated in the 1950s by then US physics PhD student, Hugh Everett III, resolves a fundamental enigma of the ‘wave function’ – the mathematical expression of how a quantum system, such as […]

Financial inclusion and banking

A billion-person opportunity?

Extinguishing the flame: Has inflation peaked?

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European stocks rally as recession fears recede

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Shifting the spotlight

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Fixed income rebounds on expectations inflation has peaked

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ABS issuance: Why so low?

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