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The 2024/25 Federal Budget delivered little to shift the outlook for building construction, although there was modest movement connected to...
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Research Briefing
The 2024/25 Federal Budget delivered little to shift the outlook for building construction, although there was modest movement connected to...
Research Briefing
The 2024-25 federal budget affirmed the forecast changes we made in the April 2024 edition of our Engineering Construction in...
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This Research Briefing summarises our four scenarios for the general election that will take place in South Africa on May...
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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced that a general election will take place on July 4. While there are...
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We see signs of an industrial recovery in the eurozone which bodes well for eurozone EPS growth and supports our...
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San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, and Boston had the strongest growing economies out of the top 10 metros in the five...
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The minutes from the April 30-May 1 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee were uneventful, which is not surprising...
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Consumer spending growth is set to remain robust across the US. With real incomes continuing to rise, spending growth is...
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Global construction activity is forecast to fall over 2024. In this context, we have identified 6 themes that we think...
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Our business cycle indicator confirms the economy has improved after getting off to a slow start in Q1. We expect...
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This is the last of the four Research Briefings on scenarios for South Africa's general election on May 29. In...
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The Budget is more stimulatory than we had anticipated and presents some upside risk to an otherwise modest growth outlook...
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Latest data point to a delayed start to a consumer revival in the eurozone, but we see relatively low risk...
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Our new proprietary cycle phase analysis suggests that industrial production in many developed economies has bottomed out and is now...
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Overall, we are slightly more bullish on commodity prices across the forecast horizon as we expect higher metal prices than...
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We find emerging, but not overwhelming, macro proof to support the recent geopolitical narrative of excess Chinese goods production that...
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Many states have far more job openings than available labor as per the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)...
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The Biden administration's additional tariffs on China are essentially a rounding error for inflation and GDP, carrying no implications for...
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This Research Briefing details the third of our four scenarios for South Africa's general election on May 29. In this...
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The Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep Bank Rate at 5.25% at May's meeting, but it also sent a clear...