Listen "Diverging Paths, Converging Risks"
Episode Synopsis
Global financial markets have been navigating a more unsettled backdrop in recent weeks, with choppier risk sentiment and shifting rate expectations reshaping the macro narrative. US assets have been particularly sensitive to signs of cooling labour-market momentum, while rising real yields in Japan and renewed fiscal tightening in the UK have added further cross-currents. In our charts this week we home in on:
The global policy rate consensus
The US labour market
Euro area inflation
Real rates in Japan
UK government debt
South Korea's semiconductor trade
The global policy rate consensus
The US labour market
Euro area inflation
Real rates in Japan
UK government debt
South Korea's semiconductor trade
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