Research Briefing
As expected, the BoJ maintained its policy rate at 0%-0.1% at Friday's meeting. With more confidence on the ongoing wage-driven...
Research Briefing
As expected, the BoJ maintained its policy rate at 0%-0.1% at Friday's meeting. With more confidence on the ongoing wage-driven...
Research Briefing
Our sentiment data, developed with Penta, suggests that UK private sector wage growth slowed sharply in March and early-April. If...
Research Briefing
We firmly agree with all of Bernake review’s forecasting process recommendations, though it appears from the BoE's initial response that...
Research Briefing
We now project that the Bank of Japan will start to raise its policy rate next spring assuming another robust...
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We think the Riksbank will cut rates in May, before the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank do so....
Research Briefing
The strength of the labor market and lingering worries about inflation among Federal Reserve officials have led us to push...
Despite the upgrade to our global economic outlook since December 2023, the Q1 update of our IFRS 9 and CECL...
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We expect the March employment report to show moderating job growth, adding to the Federal Reserve's confidence that the labor...
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The European Central Bank's updated monetary policy framework retains key advantages of the previous system and in our view is...
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) decided to end its negative interest rates policy and set the target band for the overnight market rate at...
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The Nordic economies will have a better 2024 than last year, but growth rates will diverge across the region. The...
Research Briefing
Our sentiment data suggests that the ECB's worries about sticky inflation driven by strong wage growth are misplaced. The sentiment...
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Markets appear to be increasingly converging with our forecast that the Bank of Japan will abolish its negative interest rate...
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Contentious new Labour Force Survey data implies the UK jobs market was much tighter in H2 2023 than we previously...
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After the sharp falls in eurozone inflation recently, a series of rate cuts this year by the European Central Bank...
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Disruption to shipping through the Red Sea now looks likely to keep transport costs elevated at least for the next...
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The Bank of Japan left both short-term and long-term policy rates unchanged at Tuesday's meeting as widely expected. The BoJ...
Research Briefing
The UK inflation outlook has been transformed by steep falls in oil and gas prices and the recent softening in...
Research Briefing
Ahead of this spring's Two Sessions, we expect officials to realistically stake their growth target at around 4.5% in 2024...
A plunge in consumer spending in 2022-23 has been a key factor behind the poor performance of the Czech economy....