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Revisions to personal income and spending data suggest US households accumulated a smaller stock of excess savings and have depleted...
Are we now stuck in a high inflation world? Temporarily high inflation has lasted for longer than anyone predicted and inflation is set to rise further from here. Might we have actually entered into a new, higher, regime for inflation? Find out more about our GDP inflation forecast.
Research Briefing
Revisions to personal income and spending data suggest US households accumulated a smaller stock of excess savings and have depleted...
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Central banks and many other forecasters may be underestimating the risk of persistently high inflation. While our view is that...
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Anything but a 75bps hike of the ECB's key policy rates after next week's council meeting would be a big...
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The evidence of the past year shows that inflation has been far from transitory. But we still believe supply factors...
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We expect Canada to enter a recession in Q4 2022 and as a result, most metros including Toronto, Montreal, and...
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The real-wages squeeze, slowing retail sales, and falling commodity and producer prices all point to inflation slowing down, albeit slowly....
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Our baseline economic outlook now assumes a mild US recession in the first half of 2023. Despite moderate improvement in...
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We expect a shallow but protracted recession in Finland from Q3 this year to Q1 2023, with a contraction of...
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Upward revisions to recent quarters have pushed up our Sweden growth forecast for 2022 to 3%. That said, we expect...
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Although the risk of hard energy rationing has diminished, demand destruction triggered by the surge in energy prices has led...
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The acceleration in nominal wage growth rates in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies over the past couple of quarters...
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The MENA region is a key player in the energy sector as a large producer of oil and gas, but...
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We have long been expecting a dovish pivot from the ECB at the turn of the year as supply-driven core...
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A combination of recession on the horizon, high inflation forecasted for the short term and rapid central bank tightening is...
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The minutes from the July ECB meeting, when the bank ended the period of the negative interest rates in the...
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The Norway mainland GDP forecast has been raised 0.5ppts to 3% following a slight growth surprise in Q2 and a...
Our modelling suggests incorporating owner-occupied housing costs would lower eurozone headline inflation from Q3 2022 by 0.3ppts, with negative contributions...
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We have cut our 2023 GDP growth forecast for Finland by 0.3ppts to 0.5%. Although growth in Q2 remained resilient...
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We have increased our 2022 GDP growth forecast for Sweden by 0.4ppts to 2.4%, as growth in Q2 surprised on...
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We estimate consumer spending in the eurozone increased by 0.8% q/q in Q2, despite persistent elevated inflation denting real incomes...