Developed Countries

China’s re-opening – powered by the fiscal and monetary stimulus required to achieve at least 5% real GDP growth after flattish 2022 growth – and a weaker USD will catalyze demand growth this year and next, lifting global oil consumption by close to 2mm and 1.7mm b/d in 2023 and 2024. We lowered our Brent forecast slightly for this year to $110/bbl, and expect 2024 prices to average $115/bbl. WTI will trade $4-$6/bbl lower.

3 years ago

Commodities China

Essentials

US Retail Sales, Manufacturing Production Disappoint In December

Preliminary estimates indicate that the value of US retail sales fell by a larger-than-expected 1.1% in December following a downwardly revised 1% decrease in November, marking the largest monthly decline since December 2021. Department stores (-6.6% m/m),…

3 years ago

Essentials

BoJ Leaves Policy Unchanged

After having unexpectedly doubled its Yield Curve Control (YCC) cap on 10-year government bond yields from 0.25% to 0.5% at its December meeting, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) did not adjust its policy further in January. Instead, the monetary policy statement…

3 years ago

Essentials

Beige Book: Weak Growth, Easing Inflation, Resilient Labor Market

The Fed Beige Book continues to provide a somber outlook for the US economy. It highlighted that “overall economic activity was relatively unchanged since the previous report” and that “contacts generally expected little growth in the months ahead.” In…

3 years ago

Essentials

US Gridlock Has Been Good In Modern Times But Not All Times

According to BCA Research’s US Political Strategy service, the US political and geopolitical context has not yet verifiably improved, and they doubt it will prior to 2024. Any market rally will be capped at an unexpected time over the coming months. The US…

3 years ago

GeoMacro

What Did We Learn From The Midterms?

Special Report

Investors should stay defensive on recession risks until they subside meaningfully.

3 years ago

FICC

BoJ Maintains YCC: What Next For The Yen?

We remain bullish the yen, despite the BoJ maintaining yield curve control. In this report, we outline a few reasons for this stance.

3 years ago

Currencies

FICC

BoJ Maintains YCC: What Next For The Yen?

We remain bullish the yen, despite the BoJ maintaining yield curve control. In this report, we outline a few reasons for this stance.

3 years ago

Currencies

Essentials

Eurozone Morale Improves Further In January

The ZEW survey of investor sentiment sent an upbeat signal about economic conditions in both Germany and the Eurozone in January. Most notably, the expectations subindices for both regions rebounded sharply to positive territory, from -23.6 to 16.7 in the…

3 years ago

Essentials

Empire State Manufacturing Index Plummets In January

The gauge of manufacturing activity in the state of New York sank a whopping 21.7 points to -32.9 in January, largely disappointing expectations of a marginal improvement to -8.6. Notably, new orders and shipments dropped by 27.5 and 27.7 points respectively,…

3 years ago

Developed Countries

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