Australia & New Zealand Chart Pack Inflation set to slow sharply The 6.9% annual rise in Australia’s trimmed mean CPI in Q4 was stronger than the RBA’s November forecast and has prompted some hawkish rhetoric from the Bank at its February meeting. Indeed, we now... 15th February 2023 · 12 mins read
Japan Chart Pack YCC still set to end with Ueda at the helm The government formally nominated Kazuo Ueda as the next Bank of Japan Governor at yesterday’s Diet session. Since the initial announcement of his candidature last Friday, analysts and investors have... 15th February 2023 · 11 mins read
Global Markets Update Lower inflation looks priced in, but slower growth doesn’t A further decline in US inflation seems largely priced in to financial markets. But we still think investors are too optimistic about how quickly the economy will grow, and as such are sticking with... 14th February 2023 · 4 mins read
Capital Daily Stocks, bonds, and inflation compensation Although they seem to have begun to rise again over recent weeks, we think that investors’ inflation expectations in the US are likely to fall back over the coming months. That would help Treasuries... 14th February 2023 · 7 mins read
Capital Daily Equities and commodities may move in lockstep again this year Despite the recent divergence, we think equity and commodity prices will move increasingly in tandem over the next year. 13th February 2023 · 5 mins read
FX Markets Update What a “soft landing” in the US might mean for the greenback Given that US economic outperformance has tended to coincide with a stronger dollar, we suspect a “soft landing” in the US economy would provide a favourable backdrop for the greenback, if it also... 10th February 2023 · 4 mins read
Capital Daily We still think the BoJ’s YCC is on borrowed time Kazuo Ueda’s impending appointment as Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor doesn’t alter our view that Yield Curve Control (YCC) will be abandoned in a few months’ time, pushing up the 10-year JGB yield and... 10th February 2023 · 7 mins read
Global Markets Update Higher commodity prices may boost some equity markets We think stock markets in several commodity-intensive countries will benefit from China’s ongoing reopening, which, in our view, will mean commodity prices rise further by the end of the year. 10th February 2023 · 4 mins read
Global Markets Update We expect China’s “reopening trade” to resume Some of the moves in China’s financial markets that followed its rapid reopening – including a rise in equity prices, higher bond yields and stronger renminbi – have unwound in the past couple of... 10th February 2023 · 5 mins read
India Economics Weekly Adani spill-over risks, RBI cautious on inflation Contagion risks from the Adani saga look contained for now; foreign equity outflows have been small and there has been no widening in corporate bond spreads. However, we don't share the RBI's optimism... 10th February 2023 · 5 mins read
Asset Allocation Update How a mild recession might affect S&P 500 sector performance We doubt the recent renewed outperformance of the “big-tech” sectors of the US stock market will continue in the coming months given the prospect of a mild recession, even if TIPS yields fall again. 9th February 2023 · 3 mins read
Capital Daily We think bond yields will fall further despite QT Shrinking central bank balance sheets might push up “term premia” on long-dated government bonds, but we think their yields will nonetheless fall a bit further this year. 9th February 2023 · 7 mins read
FX Markets Update We think high-beta DM currencies face near-term headwinds We expect “high-beta” developed market currencies to weaken against the dollar over the coming months as risk sentiment worsens and, in some cases, yield gaps move against them. But we anticipate a... 9th February 2023 · 4 mins read
Asset Allocation Update We still expect Indian equities to lag The Adani saga hasn’t done much to reduce the comparatively stretched valuation of India’s stock market. In our view, that means there is still scope for it to underperform over the long run. In view... 9th February 2023 · 4 mins read
Emerging Markets Economics Update Emerging Markets Capital Flows Monitor Foreign capital inflows have been soft this year in spite of the improvement in the economic outlook for EMs and the weaker dollar. And the very latest data suggest that capital has flowed out of EMs... 9th February 2023 · 2 mins read
Capital Daily EM LC bond yields will probably fall a bit further by end-2023 We think emerging market (EM) local-currency (LC) sovereign bond yields will generally fall a bit further by end-2023. 8th February 2023 · 5 mins read
