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The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 0.5% and announced its exit plan from quantitative easing at Tuesday's...
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
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 0.5% and announced its exit plan from quantitative easing at Tuesday's...
Research Briefing
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act could boost GDP over the next two years, with new tariffs helping to steady...
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Fed officials remain cautious amid rising inflation and ongoing policy uncertainty. The latest FOMC meeting highlights the challenges facing the...
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Our proprietary Eurozone Supply Stress Indicator shows that supply stress is still low, even after the US tariff announcement on...
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Event 世界経済見通しとリスク:トランプ2.0が迫る経済パラダイムの転換 5th June 2025 – 3:30pm to 5:00pm 東京都千代田区大手町1-4-1 (株式会社国際協力銀行 9F講堂) 世界経済見通しとリスク:トランプ2.0が迫る経済パラダイムの転換 Global Outlook and Risks – How Trump 2.0...
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The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 0.5% at Thursday's meeting. Considering the significant downgrading of growth and...
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We've cut our GDP growth forecasts for Japan by 0.2ppts to 0.8% in 2025 and by 0.4ppts to 0.2% in...
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Our bottom-up framework of how imports feed into consumer spending identifies where we expect the largest tariff impacts.
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) kept its policy rate at 0.50% at Wednesday's meeting, as expected. Despite a marginally higher...
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We have revised our CPI forecast upwards for this year and next, due to more persistent supply side-driven food inflation,...
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Tariffs typically result in a one-off rise in the level of prices.
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A North American trade war unfolded in dramatic fashion this week.
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We previously identified four core megatrends – demographics, technology, institutions, and globalisation – as the key drivers shaping the long-term outlook.
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First-quarter GDP is tracking weakly at 1% annualized, but we think a lot of the swings in the data are...
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We see little evidence that inflation will take a significant turn for the worse, which suggests that the risks of...
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Our updated analysis shows that the risk of 'Japanification' – a lengthy period of low growth and low inflation or...
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The Bank of Japan raised the policy rate by 0.25ppts to 0.5% at Friday's meeting, as we expected. We maintain...
Consulting Report
The EU VAT Gap 2024 report offers an extensive analysis of the value-added tax (VAT) compliance and policy gaps across...
Explore the shifting dynamics of the global economy and the critical challenges shaping growth and inflation in 2025 and beyond....