Feb
18
Charts of the Week
Macro Pulse
The messaging from this week’s raft of economic data has painted an increasingly familiar picture of the global economic scene. Headline inflation is finally easing off its highs in large part thanks to ebbing energy prices. But last year’s high levels of inflation and the global trend toward tighter monetary policy that they sparked are now exacting a heavier toll on economic activity.
Dollar Dips and Trade Trips
Financial market volatility has remained elevated over the past several days as investors attempted to weigh a modest improvement in sentiment—driven by a potential, if partial, retreat by the US administration from its aggressive tariff stance—against a still-cloudy global outlook. In our charts this week we focus on:
- Global growth signals
- US capex intentions
- South Korea’s trade
- Gold prices
- The US dollar and market volatility
- Global rebalancing
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