Focused Thinking
Economics
How have the Antipodes navigated COVID19 so well, and what are the next steps for their economy?
18 min podcast | May 2020
Economics
Basic strategy likely to involve shift to sectors with high intrinsic growth rate (alpha)
3 min read | April 2020
Economics
Damocles is based on a noise-to-signals approach in which we use eight key indicators to predict currency crises in 30 emerging market (EM) countries; this approach has correctly predicted 67% of the 54 crises since 1996.
2 min read | April 2020
Economics
Our Chief Euro Area Economist George Buckley and FX Strategist Jordan Rochester discuss what the future holds for Europe under lockdown.
19 min podcast | April 2020
Economics
Our weekly update on the global economic impact Covid-19 has had on GDP, and provide their base, good and bad scenarios.
3 min read | April 2020
Economics
The top market moving events that should be on your radar. Including the US Presidential election, trade talks, rate cuts & QE, Brexit and budgets, and green shoots in market survey data.
5 min video | January 2020
Central Banks
New year, new decade, new risks?
2 min read | January 2020
Central Banks
Global growth appears set to bottom out. However, we expect 2020 to be a year of global growth consolidation than a full-fledged recovery.
17 min video | January 2020
Central Banks
How will the UK fair amongst some Brexit clarity, will 2020 be the year of recovery?
1 min read | January 2020
Central Banks
Will this New Year mean a New Brexit?
2 min video | January 2020
Economics
What's in store for the Euro Area as we move into 2020?
2 min video | January 2020
Economics
Among its struggling European peers, how has France managed to stay ahead of the game?
3 min read | November 2019
Technology
Client demands for speed and efficiency, coupled with regulatory pressure for transparency, will continue to drive the growth of electronic trading, including trading of more complex products
5 min read | November 2019
Technology
Tech giants like Google and IBM are racing to be the first ones to create the next generation of supercomputers, but how will they impact the world of finance?
2 min read | October 2019