Canada Data Response GDP by Industry (Oct.) The modest gain in GDP in October and upward revision to activity in previous months suggest the economy was coping well with higher interest rates at the start of the fourth quarter, but the... 23rd December 2022 · 2 mins read
Latin America Economics Weekly Reflecting on 2022 and looking ahead to 2023 This year has been was a surprisingly positive one for Latin America – growth has exceeded even our once above consensus expectations and has surpassed most other EM regions. But the opposite is... 23rd December 2022 · 5 mins read
US Rapid Response US Personal Income & Spending, Durable Goods (Nov.) 23rd December 2022 · 2 mins read
UK Economics Weekly Households increase savings despite falling real incomes The economy contracted by more than we previously thought in Q3 2022. But the most surprising thing we learnt was that the saving rate leapt from 6.7% in Q2 to 9.0% in Q3 as households on aggregate... 23rd December 2022 · 5 mins read
Asia Economics Weekly Exporters take a beating, worse still to come Recent trade data from Emerging Asia have been downbeat and, with the global economy heading for recession, worse is still to come. 23rd December 2022 · 12 mins read
China Economics Weekly The most dangerous weeks of the pandemic in China China is entering the most dangerous weeks of the pandemic. The authorities are making almost no efforts now to slow the spread of infections and, with the migration ahead of Lunar New Year getting... 23rd December 2022 · 6 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Weekly Leading indicators flashing red in New Zealand New Zealand has been the canary in the coalmine for the global economy in recent years so the plunge in the ANZ activity outlook to the second-lowest level on record is cause for concern. Meanwhile... 23rd December 2022 · 3 mins read
Europe Economics Weekly Gas price ceiling, new year forecasts The ceiling on gas prices agreed in principle by the EU this week is unlikely to have any practical impact. The big picture is that gas prices look set to remain very high next year. The key release... 22nd December 2022 · 9 mins read
Nordic & Swiss Economics Weekly Swiss money supply, Swedish surveys The recent jump in money growth in Switzerland doesn't change our view that the SNB will raise interest rates only once more, to a peak of 1.25%, which would be lower than is priced into markets... 22nd December 2022 · 8 mins read
Middle East & North Africa Economics Weekly Tunisian debt, Morocco & CBAM, Jordan protests The result of parliamentary elections in Tunisia last weekend will probably strengthen President Saied’s ability to pass laws, but could also dissuade the IMF from formally approving a financing... 22nd December 2022 · 5 mins read
China Activity Monitor CAP: Service sector is still reeling Our China Activity Proxy reveals the extent of the economic damage being done by the zero-COVID policy in its final weeks. Hopes that its ending would lead to a rapid recovery have been dashed though... 22nd December 2022 · 3 mins read
Canada Chart Pack Core inflation pressures still too strong for comfort The renewed rise in the three-month annualised rates of CPI-trim and CPI-median inflation in November call into question the idea that the Bank of Canada has already finished its tightening cycle... 21st December 2022 · 8 mins read
Emerging Markets Economics Chart Pack Tightening cycles in their final throes Tightening cycles have been a key feature of 2022 across the emerging world, but the end is in sight as we enter 2023. Some EM central banks that began tightening early – for example Brazil, Chile and... 21st December 2022 · 8 mins read
Middle East & North Africa Chart Pack Door still open for fiscal loosening in the Gulf The slide in the price of oil since November has a little further to go in early 2023 and, while we think prices will recover later in the year, hydrocarbon revenues in the Gulf will be lower than... 21st December 2022 · 10 mins read
Emerging Europe Data Response Poland Activity Data (Nov.) November’s activity data for Poland were much better than expected and provide further evidence of the economy’s relative resilience to the drags from high inflation and interest rates. Even so, we... 21st December 2022 · 3 mins read
