By
Sam van de Schootbrugge
October 14, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Economics
Sustainability & Social Issues
October 14, 2020Executive Summary Elite members of economies currently face intense scrutiny, yet not all are created equal. Academics at the University of St.…
By
Sam van de Schootbrugge
August 05, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
COVID-19
Sustainability & Social Issues
August 05, 2020The Study in a Nutshell The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Almost no country has…
By
John Nugée
June 11, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
COVID-19
Sustainability & Social Issues
June 11, 2020As the world increasingly eases its various lockdowns, first in Asia and Australasia and now with gathering momentum in Europe, we move from a…
By
Bilal Hafeez
June 10, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
US
June 10, 2020Yellow people. Red people. Black people. Brown people. White people. In theory, we believe everyone’s lives matter equally…
By
Thorsten Wegener
June 10, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure
Sustainability & Social Issues
June 10, 2020I typically refrain from dipping into the vast array of human resources topics when I can. However, the more prevalent that phrases like ‘sorry, we…
By
Mehdi Farooq
June 09, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
COVID-19
Sustainability & Social Issues
June 09, 2020Recent pandemics (i.e. Spanish flu 1919 and Russian influenza of 1889) had deadlier second and third waves. If that is repeated in the current pandemic…
By
Mehdi Farooq
May 27, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
COVID-19
Emerging Markets
Geopolitics
Sustainability & Social Issues
May 27, 2020When President Trump suggests that injecting disinfectant could cure COVID-19 both health experts and the disinfectant manufacturers quickly came…
By
Caroline Grady
April 29, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Economics
Sustainability & Social Issues
April 29, 2020Governments worldwide are facing tough decisions on how to ease lockdown restrictions. Given the trade-off between the spread of the virus and…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
April 02, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
April 02, 2020The White House Coronavirus task force briefing on 31 March followed the cardinal rule of successful market strategists: provide a number or a date…
By
Caroline Grady
April 01, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Sustainability & Social Issues
April 01, 2020Parallels between the 19th century Cholera outbreak and the coronavirus include the disproportionate hit on the poor where people live closer…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
March 31, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 31, 2020The daily release of countries’ COVID-19 case counts consistently makes front page headlines despite conveying little information. By contrast…
By
CEEMarketWatch
March 26, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Fiscal Policy & Inequality
Monetary Policy & Inflation
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 26, 2020Central Europe has acted swiftly against the coronavirus spread. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania have all closed their borders to…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
March 26, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 26, 2020President Trump’s announcement that he plans on having the US economy re-open by Easter has proved controversial. Yet whether or not we agree…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
March 19, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Economics
Growth & Labour Market
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 19, 2020A sharp, globally synchronized, COVID-19-related slowdown is underway. Because most governments have been slow to respond, their policy options…
By
Bilal Hafeez
March 19, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
UK
March 19, 2020The UK appears to be on a war footing. The enemy is an invisible one, the COVID-19 coronavirus. ‘We must act like any wartime government’, said…
By
Macro Dilettante
March 19, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Economics
Investment Strategy
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 19, 2020Thinking back through other crises that have occurred since I started my career in 1988, I realised my favourite was my first: 1997/98. It was a world…
By
Caroline Grady
March 13, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Economics
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 13, 2020Editors from VoxEU talk about the new eBook on the economics of the coronavirus written by leading academics and policymakers. And the prognosis…
By
Caroline Grady
March 13, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Commodities & Energy
Investment Strategy
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 13, 2020Franklin Templeton’s Multi-Asset Solutions team discuss how to play the heightened market volatility from the coronavirus and the oil shock…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
March 12, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Economics
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 12, 2020Implementing a worldwide, synchronized, two-week long strict quarantine could end the COVID-19 global pandemic. About 99% of infected individuals…
By
Bilal Hafeez
March 12, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 12, 2020“Public opinion is sacred: no panic, above all no panic”. “There have been as many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars…
By
Mehdi Farooq
March 11, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
US
March 11, 2020Social distancing is currently considered one of the most effective mechanisms to control COVID-19. But what can history tell us about how well this type…
By
Caroline Grady
March 06, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Economics
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 06, 2020Bruegel experts present opposing views on what the coronavirus means for the future of globalisation, in particular international supply chains and…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
March 03, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
Economics
Investment Strategy
Sustainability & Social Issues
March 03, 2020Markets surged on Monday following global announcements of policy easing. This is in line with my 13 February expectations that Covid-19 was unlikely…
By
Caroline Grady
February 28, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Economics
Sustainability & Social Issues
February 28, 2020IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva and Lord Nicholas Stern, of the London School of Economics, discuss the challenges brought by…
By
Caroline Grady
February 28, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Sustainability & Social Issues
February 28, 2020Jim Bianco, from Bianco Research, Mike Shedlock from Money Maven, Dr Ben Hunt – author of Epsilon Theory and Dr Chris Martenson from…
By
Caroline Grady
February 21, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Investment Strategy
Sustainability & Social Issues
February 21, 2020DB’s credit research analyst Craig Nicol shares insights on the $250bn green bond market. In the absence of an official definition Nicol describes…
By
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
February 20, 2020
In: Hive Exclusives |
EM
Growth & Labour Market
Sustainability & Social Issues
US
February 20, 2020A global COVID-19 pandemic would further accelerate the post-financial crisis deglobalization. China’s long-term growth rate could be hit the hardest…
By
Caroline Grady
February 14, 2020
In: Podcast Playlists |
Investment Strategy
Sustainability & Social Issues
February 14, 2020Philipp Hildebrand, BlackRock’s Vice Chairman, and Rachel Lord, Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa discuss the company’s pivot towards…
