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President Trump ordered a 25% tariff on autos and auto parts, starting on April 3.
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President Trump ordered a 25% tariff on autos and auto parts, starting on April 3.
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Wealth effects proved to be a quite reliable tailwind to consumer spending this cycle.
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The Spring Statement delivered on Wednesday 26 March is likely to prove a stopgap ahead of a more comprehensive overhaul...
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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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Our baseline forecast now assumes that European defence spending will rise to 3% of GDP by the end of the...
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A series of problems have undermined confidence in the accuracy of official economic statistics for the UK. When using Office...
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We assess the implications and risks for our commodity price forecasts against the backdrop of a 'fragile' ceasefire in the...
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If there’s one thing more damaging than tariffs themselves, it’s the sharp rise in trade policy uncertainty.
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Our internal recession models support our opinion that a looming downturn is unlikely, despite rising recession risks.
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The small, open economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are struggling against three external headwinds simultaneously: stuttering German industry,...
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The impact of global tariffs, a high degree of policy uncertainty, and higher for longer interest rates are expected to...
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We've upgraded our 2025 GDP growth forecast for Australia by 0.2ppts to 2.1%. Growth in 2024 was in line with...
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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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Eurozone growth in 2025 will rely on consumers. There were positive signs in H2 last year, with consumers starting to...
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The slew of tariff proposals coming out of the US has added much uncertainty to the highly export-reliant Singapore economy....
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Tariff threats and heightened trade policy uncertainty began causing stress in supply chains.
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Despite weaker-than-expected gains in headline consumer and producer prices in February, the source data that feed into the PCE deflator...
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House prices across Europe have soared over the past decade, especially in cities. During this time, incomes in Europe have...