Research Briefing
We expect important changes to the EU’s fiscal governance framework, but no paradigm shift. Specifically, green and digital public investments...
Research Briefing
We expect important changes to the EU’s fiscal governance framework, but no paradigm shift. Specifically, green and digital public investments...
Research Briefing
In the next two decades, the world’s 900 major cities will experience a combined population increase of nearly 600 million...
Research Briefing
Though the scale of December’s fall in retail sales came as a nasty surprise, it was not simply an Omicron...
With eurozone inflation confirmed at a record-high of 5.0% y/y in December, the debate over how long upward price pressures...
The release of the ECB December meeting minutes confirmed that inflation remained at the forefront of the Governing Council’s discussions...
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Ukraine’s sovereign Eurobond yields soared since mid-November when US sources first reported a build-up of Russian troops along its eastern...
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After emerging as an outperformer in early 2021, the Central and Eastern European region is set to face an eventful...
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Our new index of European real estate obsolescence finds that the Nordic countries have the lowest risk of obsolescence and...
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We’ve lowered our 2022 Danish GDP forecast 0.1ppt to 3%, with the Omicron variant expected to slow activity in Q1....
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We have kept our growth forecast for this year unchanged at 3.2%, as we expect the impact of the Omicron...
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A strong outturn for November took the output measure of GDP above its pre-pandemic peak. Given GDP is likely to...
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Strong industrial production numbers for November offer some hope that the worst is over, supporting our view of a gradual...
Research Briefing
Our forecast for Finland’s GDP growth is 2.3% this year and 1.5% in 2023, both unchanged from last month. Despite...
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This week’s talks between Russia, on one side, and on the other the US, NATO and the Organisation of Security...
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We expect the solid recovery of the labour market and the lagged impact from the 2021 inflation surge to trigger...
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Our eurozone Recovery Tracker saw further deterioration over the Christmas period, falling 1.5pts to 79.1 in the three weeks ended...
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The hit to UK GDP from Omicron is likely to be much smaller than previous Covid waves
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The news for Europe at the start of the year has been mixed. The spread of the Omicron variant has...
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The latest data point to a strong recovery underway in London in Q4 2021. But this pace of expansion will...
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That movements in consumer credit and households’ savings in November returned to levels more akin to pre-Covid norms offered further...