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By Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 07/01/2020
Much of the academic literature we have reviewed posits demographics determine long-term economic growth. Rising populations mean more demand for just about everything: food, housing, clothing, energy, medical care, services—you name it. It also means a rising workforce, providing the ability to meet that demand.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 06/12/2019
Will a weakening Chinese economy hurt European exporters and drive a new continental recession?
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 08/10/2019
Mario Draghi steps down as ECB President at October’s end, and outgoing IMF head Christine Lagarde is set to take his place.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 09/09/2019
Increasingly, many developed world countries’ fixed-interest securities’ yields have gone sub-zero.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 07/08/2019
Over two months after UK and EU leaders delayed Brexit, things are looking a bit grim, in our view.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 02/07/2019
The yield curve charts a country’s interest rates across all loan maturities—from short-term rates set by the central bank to long-term government bond rates traded in the marketplace. It is widely thought to be a reliable leading economic indicator. Here we explain why we think the yield curve works and how we interpret today’s yield curves.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 13/06/2019
In our view, markets move most on the gap between reality and folks’ emotions or expectations about reality—sentiment, broadly. Today, we think quantitative and qualitative measures of sentiment suggest investors are increasingly dour about the eurozone’s prospects.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 09/05/2019
Spring has sprung! And with the warmer temperatures, sunnier days and budding flowers we expect another yearly regularity to hit soon: financial media’s warnings you should exit equities before the annual summer doldrums hit markets – to sell, that is, in May.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 25/04/2019
Legend has it Albert Einstein called compound growth the eighth wonder of the world—“the most powerful force in the universe.” However, you don’t need to be a genius to understand how compounding works.
Read MoreBy Fisher Investments UK, Citywire, 19/03/2019
In early February, Italian Co-Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio met with France’s Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protestors. The leader of the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) thus triggered a diplomatic row, with French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron recalling his ambassador from Italy.
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