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Global Outlook, Winter 2025: preview
In this preview we outline some of the main changes to our forecast since our Global Outlook, Autumn 2025. In our Global Outlook, Winter 2025 we investigate the effect of US tariffs on US inflation and global trade We take a closer look at China using our revised and updated China Momentum Indicator (CMI), and consider China’s short- and long-term economic prospects, with Japan’s 1990 bubble burst as a reference point Meanwhile, we see that Japan is no longer ‘doing
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China’s chokehold on key minerals: what the data say

UK Update: quicker rate of cuts to come
Tracking US stock market returns

“The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths”

Who won the US-China trade war?

Mexico on the tightrope

China’s domestic demand woes persist

UK Update: important Budget looms

Global Outlook, Autumn 2025: fiscal policy under high interest rates

China targeting growth via security?

China’s new European target — Spain

Who will bear the brunt of falling ODA?

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2025 Q3

China’s pivot to Russia for energy security

Considering scenarios for US tariffs

Little to celebrate in China’s latest data

China’s economic statecraft in Pakistan’s energy sector

UK Update: weaker growth prospects

Russia looks to Asia to beat sanctions

40m Chinese workers in unproductive jobs

Mexico’s greenfield boom: opportunity or threat?

China’s investment dips after 2023 surge

UK Update: food prices may risk second-round effects

Trading the decarbonisation of European aviation

US jobs revisions prompt economic rethink

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2025 Q2

Germany’s planned fiscal expansion

UK Update: stagnation adds to rate-cut pressures

Is 2025 rewriting the markets playbook?

Electricity will be the new jet fuel

Noncommonality and global market dislocation

Hydrogen stages quiet coup at Paris Air Show

New NATO spending target squeezes already-tight budgets

Will the US lose its reserve currency status?

Global Outlook, Summer 2025: dealing with global imbalances

UK Update: the potential for second-round effects

Keep calm and bet (on) the FARM

UK Update: growth surprises, sentiment still low

Global Outlook, Summer 2025: preview

Is there a measurable impact of AI on employment?

Tariff update: objectives and outcome

An unfolding trade war with untold consequences

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2025 Q1

UK Update: less persistence than expected?

Global Outlook, Spring 2025: a turn for the worse

Are US economic ties at a turning point?

China’s drive towards autos dominance

China’s strategic gamble on ‘Made in China 2025’: a verdict

UK Update: weakness and persistence

What DeepSeek tells us about China’s progress in AI

Bargain-hunting US investors remain vigilant

New realities, new alliances: the case of Canada

No end in sight for China’s housing woes

Curing the sick man of Europe

UK Update: uncertainty on the rise

Global Outlook, Spring 2025: preview

Assessing French fiscal risks

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2024 Q4

Fathom book club: Edmans, Flyvbjerg and Erikson

Could Vietnam replace China?

Risks to EMs in the easing cycle

UK Update: February cut may be last this year

Made in China 2025: a milestone verdict

Christmas books: a Fathom wishlist

Measuring systemic risk in the shadow banking sector

Global Outlook, Winter 2024: the new path for interest rates

Fathom investment optimiser points to Poland and US

‘Trump Lite’ versus ‘Donald Dark’

UK Update: up or down? Bank’s inflation conundrum

Financial markets and the Trump presidency

Global Outlook, Winter 2024: preview

UK Update: rate cuts? Don’t hold your breath

First reactions to a second Trump presidency

Chinese outward FDI soars in 2023

South Asia: a region ‘in play’

China is waving in the robots

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2024 Q3

Hiring patterns, equity returns and the economy

Fiscal rules should encourage R&D

Global Outlook, Autumn 2024: a change is coming

UK Update: all eyes on the Budget

Chinese equities enjoy a ‘whatever it takes’ moment

The path towards a more open India

Negative energy prices in Europe

The Sahm rule: useful, not conclusive

UK Update: inflation to remain above target in the near term

Rate cuts: a high-water mark for markets?

Value hunting in Magnificent Seven era

Aid as a policy tool

Global Outlook, Autumn 2024: a change is coming

Gauging the true US monetary stance

China losing ground to US on finance ties, Tracker shows

Lessons from SpaceX

Could economics swing the US election?

Do future growth expectations help explain fertility rates?

China plus one: how much could de-risking cost?

Has sterling’s time finally come?

UK Update: inflation to move back above target in July

Türkiye eyes new FDI target

Market turmoil in perspective

Investors and the easing cycle

Three per cent: China’s new horizon for growth

O voter, where art thou?

Could de-regulation revive the UK economy?

UK Update: rising risk of a policy error?

Could Frexit become a reality?

China plus one: who could replace the PRC?

Chinese statecraft through new energy FDI

The US strengthens ties with Taiwan

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2024 Q2

All change please: the old model terminates here

Mileinomics starts to have an impact

Global Outlook, Summer 2024: old lessons for new times

Rising London house prices: a golden truth?

De-risking: looking at patterns in global trade and globalisation

Is clean tech the answer to China’s slowing growth?

UK Update: reasons for optimism

Nice margins: mind the AI

Global Outlook, Summer 2024: Preview

Banks in OECD economies look resilient

Can economic fundamentals determine the US election outcome?

Transition aid meets economic statecraft

Can economics explain geopolitical alignment?

US dynamism in prospectors

Why EM stocks are on the up

Is it “the economy, stupid”?

UK update: CPI set to fall below 2.0% in April

Market pricing in times of conflict

Solving the US labour market puzzle

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2024 Q1

Farewell to the fan chart

Can India harness its full potential?

The benefits of ‘higher for longer’

A farewell to Keynes

Opacity and pessimism in China

Will China-made smart cars outwit US sanctions?

Global Outlook, Spring 2024: surf the wave, mind the exit

Foreign investors eye up India

Unpicking euro area credit risk

China high-tech exports resist the bite

Justifying ‘higher for longer’

Chocolate and climate change

The early warning signal from banks

Global Outlook, Spring 2024: Preview

India’s incredible democracy

Does China plus one equal India?

Japan’s corporate sector: not zombies but cash cows

Tapping untapped sun and wind

China’s influence in commodity markets

Is China’s BRI activity underreported?

Investors wary of Chinese equities

Exploring UK regional inequalities

Corporate Japan’s actively passive attitude

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2023 Q4

Can South Korea avoid Japan’s fate?

Climate diplomacy: time for a new lobbying technique?

Euro area economy in the doldrums

On the trail of China’s influence in Africa

Japan to the world: yield curve control is no more

Weight-loss drugs feed performance

US outperformance – a trend not an aberration

Global Outlook, Winter 2023: The Matterhorn, not Table Mountain

COP28: economics first, climate second

Military aid for Ukraine starts to flag

Why Germany needs a new economic model

Global Outlook, Winter 2023: Preview

Health-checking corporate America

Resilient US housing market’s soft underbelly

Global impact of a slowing China

China’s hidden military spending

Money buys happiness, up to a point

Tight credit brings constraints to the fore

Can disinflation turn Tory election fortunes?

Women in the labour market

Update: Middle East conflict

Inflation disparities across the euro area

China changes its tune to the broken-wing blues

Poland inflation and central bank independence

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2023 Q3

Tuning reefs to competing interests

US equities and the power of the few

Global Outlook, Autumn 2023: fortunes diverging

China rising in Latin America

The US fails to friend-shore

Is China the threat it’s made out to be?

Germany’s partner, competitor and rival

US dollar and commodities

Why are houses so expensive?

How inflation surprises impact portfolio diversification

Global Outlook, Autumn 2023: Preview

US outbound investment screening

Chinese real estate market falters

Internally China slows, while its reach grows

Watching for a euro crisis

What’s going on in Niger?

Recession Watch: longer debt maturities are no panacea

Tracing dependency and trading it

Is Africa the energy supplier of the future?

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2023 Q2

The surprising truth about energy transition supply chains

Recession Watch: realistic optimism

Building transition-related diversity

Is the dollar’s status at risk?

Global Outlook, Summer 2023: two bullets still in the chamber

Will China enter a balance-sheet recession?

The renminbi’s momentum has faltered

Global Outlook, Summer 2023: one bullet dodged

China’s youth unemployment rate at 20.4%

Recession Watch: sunny mood in markets

China’s economic echo chambers

Should an oil nation lead COP28?

There must be some kind of way outta here

Will AI cause job losses?

The point of r-star

The warning from Swedish real estate

The Bank of England is still behind the curve

Which came first: credit crunch or recession?

Recession Watch: is the Fed tightening going to plan?

The focus of UK R&D policy

Let’s talk about the credit cycle

Why the UK underexploits its innovation

The unusual shape of China’s recovery

Chatbots will eat themselves

UK tech continues to attract investment

Innovation policy lacks a spring in its step

Global Outlook, Spring 2023: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Recession Watch: the three C’s in crises

Recession Watch: the size of prospective rate cuts

Recession Watch: the banking system’s known knowns

Gauging the risk of a banking crisis

Recession Watch: SVB triggers risk-off mood

Contagion risks from SVB failure

Recession Watch: flipflopping

Global Outlook, Spring 2023: Repeating past mistakes

Recession Watch: spotting European risks

A game theory approach to techno-economic competition

China’s high-tech dream gains momentum

Recession Watch: no landing… for now

Automation: this time could be different

Measuring the AI sector

Recession Watch: the pause for breath

Automation could offset China’s demographic problem

Evolving European energy outlook

Introducing ‘Welcome to the machine’

Recession Watch: US doing all it can to avoid recession

Land of the rising yields

Recession Watch: Goldilocks and the macro bears

Recession Watch: the dog that didn’t bark, yet

Recession Watch: tightening with both hands

Making the case for a UK industrial strategy

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2022 Q4

Recession Watch: slowly, and then all at once

Recession Watch: risk of resurgent inflation

Fathom’s Christmas holiday reading

Recession Watch: savings only temporary respite for US

Recession Watch: markets two steps ahead of the data

Global Outlook, Winter 2022: Blinded by the pivot?

Recession Watch: what if Japan releases the brakes?

Global Outlook, Winter 2022: Preview

Recession Watch: is ‘zero COVID’ on the way out?

Energy crisis fuels EU sovereign risks

Recession Watch: identifying recessions with uncertain data

Recession Watch: leverage spotting

Avoid greenwashing and make a difference

Politics trumps economics in US midterms

Recession Watch: no rescue from excess savings

EMs need to scale up green investment

Remember, remember

Spotting net zero’s investment opportunities

The impact of a slowing Chinese economy

Recession Watch – delaying the inevitable?

Net zero transition may require scrapping $20 trillion of ‘dirty’ assets

$100 trillion needed to meet Paris goal – in context

Recession Watch: was the UK fiscal wobble a sign of things to come?

An investor’s guide to net zero by 2050: key takeaways

Don’t underestimate China’s bad loan problem

Recession Watch: riders on the storm

The UK’s degrowth plan

Inflation: seconds out for round two

Recession Watch: here we go again

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2022 Q3

Housing could cause a China banking crisis

How the markets reacted to the UK ‘mini-budget’

The UK loses its magic money tree

Why is the yen falling?

Global Outlook Autumn 2022: Spiralling…out of control?

Welcome, Prime Minister

Why China must automate

The great transatlantic divergence

Beware of people bearing gifts

Challenging times for hedged equity investing

Fathom book club: Raworth, Rebanks and Sheldrake

Demographics – looking into the future

Lessons for China-Taiwan from Russia-Ukraine

China growth to be around half Xi’s target in 2022

Euro area stability — a tale of two leaders

Fathom’s Top 10 reads for 2022 Q2

Is the age of globalisation over? Yes — and no.

Global Outlook, Summer 2022: Update

Market takeaways on inflation and hawkishness

Fathom book club: Kearns, Lee and Pasquale

Global Outlook, Summer 2022: Between a rock and a hard place

Soaring food prices raise the risk of political instability

Is Xi’s authority in trouble?

The Middle Kingdom is in the doldrums

Fathom book club: Copeland, Kahneman and Rozelle

Global Outlook, Spring 2022: Update

China’s economic woes mount

Back to the 1970s

Russian bears scratching each other’s backs

US military expenditure — Biden should focus on R&D

China is not about to drive up global inflation

Fathom’s Top 10 most read for 2022 Q1

Standoff over gas payments risks a continental recession

Global Outlook, Spring 2022: Fake it till you make it

Behind-the-curve Fed signals more rate hikes

China housing set for further easing

The beginning of history

Inflation drivers and equity markets

Initial thoughts on today’s events in Ukraine

The perils of tighter Fed policy

The Ukrainian crisis and European inflation

China on the road to Japan

Is Brexit fuelling UK inflation?

Macro FROGcasting and portfolio construction

Understanding Turkey’s currency crisis

Sri Lanka’s woes – a sign of the times?

Reflections from COP26 — winners and losers

Hits and misses in 2021

Risks of stagflation receding in China

Currency crisis in Turkey, preventable or intentional?

Are we heading for a systemic banking crisis?

China’s house of cards

China’s intellectual property acquisition erodes US edge

Hidden inflation in the services sector

GEMO 2022 Q1: Credibility stretched

Financial vulnerability in Africa

Greta says it’s all just blah blah blah ─ why I disagree

Are inflation expectations slipping their anchor?

Run to the hills? Not yet

How to spot a cop-out at COP26

Allocating the world’s carbon budget

Valuing land before and after COVID

Decarbonising the UK’s electricity mix – what will it take?

Is Made in China really made in China?

COP26 unlikely to achieve its targets

GEMO 2021 Q4: Global recovery complete — what next?

The bumpy road to climate transition

COVID still poses risks to demand and supply

Round-up: from global interest rates to public sector bankruptcies

Is China’s vision of high-tech specialism stalling?

China’s climate challenge ahead

New IPCC report ups the climate stakes

Biden should stick to China tariff regime

Has low-for-long run its course?

Using fundamental and sentiment news to shape equity allocation

Recovery Watch, 14 July 2021

Has China passed the Lewis turning point?

Monthly update, June 2021

Recovery Watch, 9 June 2021

GEMO 2021 Q3: Inflation – deal with it, or roll with it?

A tale of two cryptos

Signs of optimism for the EU

If I were a monetarist…

Recovery Watch, 5 May 2021

The fall and rise of the output gap

The resource curse through the lens of the DRC

China’s rare opportunity to rebalance

Monthly update, April 2021

TCFD: a climate game-changer

Global recovery – who is winning?

Inflation: too much talk, little action

Recovery Watch, 7 April 2021

A Ricardian view of Brexit

Monthly update, March 2021

GEMO 2021 Q2: Investors return to macro and inflation outlook

Dimensions of power: US and China

Sequencing Bitcoin’s macro DNA

Recovery Watch, 3 March 2021

Global macro in a pandemic: messages from Fathom’s Centrality Tracker

China’s housing bares all

QE no panacea for EMs in another Taper Tantrum

Monthly update, February 2021

EU climate policy: risks and opportunities

Biden presidency a potential game changer, but net zero path requires bipartisan support

Recovery Watch, 3 February 2021

This year give your investments a macro makeover with Fathom’s macro portfolios

Can Joe Biden make America great again?

Recovery Watch, 13 January 2021

Recovery Watch, 6 January 2021

China’s corporate bond defaults: are they here to stay?

Recovery Watch, 16 December 2020

Recovery Watch, 9 December 2020

Recovery Watch, 2 December 2020

GEMO 2021 Q1: Hope at last

Chancellor announces highest public investment since the GFC

Recovery Watch, 25 November 2020

Recovery Watch, 18 November 2020

Recovery Watch, 11 November 2020

Divided US government means less fiscal support

Climate economics and the US election

Recovery Watch, 4 November 2020

Recovery Watch, 28 October 2020

Recovery Watch, 21 October 2020

Recovery Watch, 14 October 2020

Recovery Watch, 7 October 2020

US Election: Biden the base case, but Trump can’t be ruled out

Recovery Watch, 30 September 2020

How much debt is too much?

Recovery Watch, 23 September 2020

Sino-US tensions in a post-COVID world

Recovery Watch, 16 September 2020

GEMO 2020 Q4: On the up

Recovery Watch, 9 September 2020

Recovery Watch, 2 September 2020

Recovery Watch, 26 August 2020

Recovery Watch, 19 August 2020

What next for the labour market?

Recovery Watch, 14 August 2020

A little less conversation, a little more action, please

Beyond COVID-19

Recovery Watch, 5 August 2020

Recovery Watch, 31 July 2020

Can Trump delay the election?

Recovery Watch, 22 July 2020

Recovery Watch, 17 July 2020

Recovery Watch, 8 July 2020

Spread of COVID-19 is slowing for reasons other than lockdown

China’s juggling act between hot property and a cold economy

Recovery Watch, 3 July 2020

Recovery Watch, 26 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 24 June 2020

How do we get from V to L?

Recovery Watch, 22 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 19 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 17 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 12 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 10 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 8 June 2020

GEMO 2020 Q2: Climbing out the other side

Recovery Watch, 5 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 3 June 2020

Recovery Watch, 29 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 27 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 26 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 22 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 20 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 18 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 15 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 13 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 11 May 2020

Recovery Watch, 6 May 2020

What is monetary financing, are we doing it, and if so does it matter?

Recession Watch, 1 May 2020

China’s labour market statistics fail the sniff test, but are not alone

Recession Watch, 29 April 2020

Recession Watch, 27 April 2020

Recession Watch, 24 April 2020

Recession Watch, 23 April 2020

Recession Watch, 21 April 2020

Recession Watch, 20 April 2020

Recession Watch, 16 April 2020

Recession Watch, 15 April 2020

Down but not out: signals from Fathom’s asset allocation toolbox

Recession Watch, 14 April 2020

Recession Watch, 9 April 2020

Potential short- and long-run economic consequences of COVID-19

A chance for China to tell it how it is

Recession Watch, 3 April 2020

Recession Watch, 31 March 2020

Recession Watch, 30 March 2020

Recession Watch, 27 March 2020

Recession Watch, 26 March 2020

A tale of two crises: rising unemployment key to the Irish outlook

ECB steps in as contagion fears resurface

Recession Watch, 19 March 2020

2020 Q1: biggest global recession since the 1930s

COVID-19 spread sparks Italian debt sustainability fears

UK economic sentiment strengthened further last month

Raise a glass to the new chancellor

Global recession now odds on

Assessing the ECB’s monetary toolkit

Is France heading towards recession?

US sentiment bounces back, but growth yet to follow

China’s underutilised society

ECB’s strategy review unlikely to solve its inflation woes

Why have the aftermaths of recent banking crises been so painful?

Introducing Fathom’s Centrality Tracker: a measure of global linkages

Fathom’s UK ESI points to a rapid turnaround in sentiment

UK fiscal expansion to lift growth in coming quarters

2020 vision: turning hindsight into insights

The building blocks of China

The euro area: reverting to trend

US December sentiment – a dead cat bounce?

UK election sees currency risk fall, despite continued uncertainty

2019 in review: investors embrace European political changes

Netflix and chill: economists find new meaning

Introducing Fathom’s China Momentum Indicator 3.0

UK economic sentiment weakest for more than ten years

Investors content to hold European debt as pressure for easing grows

US economy to avoid recession, but weak rebound ahead

UK inflation to fall below zero in the event of a Conservative majority

FROG: the asset allocation prince

UK electoral arithmetic: testing the loyalty of conflicted voters

Introducing Fathom’s 2019 Q4 forecast: through the looking glass and back to reality

Surveys of economic sentiment suggest UK still on cusp of recession

China: down and fighting back

Spanish ESI softens, but growth likely to remain strong

Trade deal offers hope amid economic slowdown

Fathom’s capital flows database — greatest hits

Bullish investors taking a new look at Greek debt

India: positive demographics, but will they be harnessed?

European fiscal easing not enough to offset weaker growth

European fiscal easing not enough to offset weaker growth

Global trade: pause or rewind?

US sentiment – back to reality

The Hong Kong problem

Greece: more debt and fewer people

How low can yields go?

Happy Anniversary?

Fathom’s Top 10 for 2019 Q3

US sentiment to suffer due to weakness abroad and slowdown at home

Impeachment proceedings do not change US economic outlook

Supreme Court rules

UK economic sentiment lowest since the recession

Trading places: France emerges from Germany’s shadow

Investors confident of Italy staying, less so of them paying

Investors complacent about US–China deal?

Introducing Fathom’s 2019 Q3 forecast: A pause that refreshes?

Rebalancing remains a distant prospect for China

The impact of a Labour government

Liquidity FLiq-ed on by July Fed cut

Fathom’s ESI reflects pessimism in German manufacturing sector

Tariff-neutralising fall in China’s currency fails to stem economic slowdown

Don’t FVI for me Argentina

US sentiment rebounds amid longer term slowdown

UK ESI consistent with broadly flat economic output in July

A new dimension in British politics

China will refrain from going nuclear on currency weaponisation

Inflation projections plagued by Brexit uncertainty

FLI points to a turn in the manufacturing cycle

Consumption tax up, sentiment down

Investors cheer prospect of ECB easing

Nowcast provides little support for ECB policy easing

US economic sentiment weakened in June amid escalating trade tensions

Fathom’s ESIs highlight manufacturing weakness

Debt sustainability issues limit room for manoeuvre in some euro area economies

Fathom’s UK ESI reaches a six-year low

Fathom’s CMI 2.0 slows to 4.8% in May

Will the Italian bond rally continue?

Will central banks adopt higher inflation targets?

Euro area inflation forecasts show risk of stagnation

Central bankers – tailoring policy to rules or markets?

New Prime Minister of Greece plans reforms, but will they succeed?

Breaking up credit: it’s not you, it’s me…

Investors reassess odds of Italian domino effect

Euro area ESI ticks up as Draghi plans last hurrah

US sentiment indicator highlights investors’ misguided rate expectations

Fathom’s UK ESI highlights risk of economic stagnation

China: heading for the slow lane

Introducing Fathom’s 2019 Q2 forecast: President Trump’s bark is (probably) worse than his bite

Investors remain overly wary of Greek default risk

China’s ticking NPL time bomb

CEI drops sharply amid escalating trade tensions

Charting the FLI path of global growth

Downward trend in Italian sentiment continues

European elections – a first step towards our ‘Golden Scenario’?

US economic sentiment and GDP growth to decline this year

Higher energy prices to boost UK inflation

Are we in for a repeat of the 2008 global financial crisis?

UK ESI suggests underlying economic growth is close to 0.2%

Benign investor reaction reflects limited political risk in Spain

Another false start for Japan as economic sentiment hits multi-year low

Fathom’s Top 10 for 2019 Q1

China: caught between a rock and a hard place

CEI reflects optimism over US/China trade deal

US policy stance to return to neutral this year

Euro area expected to grow at a moderate pace in the first quarter

Upside US GDP surprise in store amid sentiment perk

What to expect from long-term expected returns — Fathom edition

Another strong year for the Irish economy

Fathom’s CMI holds steady as growth is prioritised over reform

UK inflation bucks the European trend

Rates too low according to Taylor rule

Investors see low risk of break-up as European elections near

Does China threaten US hegemony?

UK ESI continues to fall

Stalling market liquidity at odds with sustainable market rally

On gaming, Brexit, and the importance of looking around corners

Euro area sentiment ticked up in February

Central banks blink as outlook dims

US economic sentiment failed to rebound in February following shutdown

Fathom’s SFI highlights risks in Turkey and Argentina

Smart Beta 2.0 — rise of the machines

Euro break-up fears receding as currency’s popularity rises

Introducing Fathom’s 2019 Q1 forecast: Stepping back from the edge?

Trade war on pause, but new era of tension here to stay

UK economic optimism close to six-year low

Euro area sentiment: mind the gap

Fathom’s Top 10 for 2018 Q4

Fathom’s CMI hovers around 6%

US recession still some way off despite weaker economic sentiment

China using capital flows to leapfrog up the global value chain

Falling inflation to help boost domestic demand

The Ionian divide ― lessons from Fathom’s indicators

China’s data mask hidden underemployment problem

Credit market success breeds complacency

Euro area nowcast suggests slowdown continued in Q4

UK ESI falls to lowest level since the EU referendum

Market turmoil hits US economic sentiment but recession still some way off

Fed pause raises the prospect of ‘one last party’ in global asset markets

Japanese sentiment clouded by global uncertainty

China is slowing, but it is not a consequence of rebalancing

UK inflation — still standing at the Brexit crossroads

A symbolic moment as UK house price inflation falls to 0.5%

Fathom’s 2018 scorecard

Italy’s fiscal resolution aims to soothe markets

New year, new EU

Fathom global outlook: feel the market

Focus on the ESI, not the Fed, for your holiday cheer

‘Old-model’ tactics halt China’s economic growth slowdown – for now

Global economy still has not learned to FLI

CEI reflects see-sawing trade tensions

Do they know it’s value time at all?

Time to lay off the monetary meds

ECB to end QE despite weak inflation

Italy – not all roads lead to default

Fathom’s UK ESI points to weaker economic activity in Q4

Time to lay off the monetary meds

When markets are wrong – lessons from Fathom’s SFI

Introducing Fathom’s 2018 Q4 forecast: Time to party like it’s 1989?

US business confidence slipped ahead of midterm elections

China’s ‘grey rhino’ threat

Made in China, exposed by RiCArdo

A flick about FLiq

Lessons from Fathom’s inflation models

Has euro area contagion risk returned?

US midterm elections not a game changer for the economy

Policy prescriptions for the Irish economy

Asset allocation: taking stock and dodging smoking barrels

Euro area economy likely to have grown by 0.4%

US Q3 GDP preview: another four handle amid buoyant sentiment?

A global recession is coming: here’s why

China’s hokey-cokey approach to reform

Japan: sentiment rebounds slightly in Q3

UK inflation set to fall after August blip

Euro area: set to catch a cold?

Italy: loosening the purse strings

US-listed firms with China exposure underperform their peers

EMs – fine now, cry later

Budget uncertainty weighing on Italian sentiment

Timeout for US small caps?

Time to batten down the hatches?

Business and consumer surveys support our bullish US GDP growth call

Rising above the labyrinth of financial noise with the FLI

China: old model still doing the heavy lifting

Rising above the labyrinth of financial noise with the FLI

Italy – markets remain on edge but not routing yet

Introducing our Q3 forecast: Fathom’s 2020 vision

UK economic sentiment stable despite rising uncertainty

Sovereign crisis risks in emerging markets

The ‘is’ and the ‘ought’ of net trade

US firms and consumers a little less optimistic, but growth outlook positive

Why oil might approach $20 per barrel

Italy back in the spotlight as EA sentiment remains elevated

Made in China; taxed in the USA

The outlook for G4 inflation

Italy to buck the trend as ECB plans to tighten policy

Greece – another can kicked down the road

China prioritises short-term growth

Unconvincingly ‘hawkish’ UK Inflation Report

Measurement issues cannot explain the productivity slowdown

What to make of US benchmark GDP revisions

UK economic sentiment slipped back a little in June

The outlook for ECB policy

ECB remains on course; economic outlook unchanged

Euro area ‘nowcast’ model points to rebound in GDP growth

Japan’s ESI slips for a second consecutive quarter

Liquidity trends at the FLIQ of a finger

Measuring trade tensions with our China Exposure Index

Trade wars — it’s all in the game

The UK and euro area – will inflation continue to converge?

What goes down must come up

Fathom’s UK ESI bucks the recent downward trend

New insights into EU migration

Trade and the theory of second best

China’s latest power grab — all hot air?

China’s economy continues to slow

Italy – the relative calm after the storm

UK growth revisions — some plain facts

Introducing Fathom’s Q2 forecast: Hurry up please, it’s time!

Fathom’s UK ESI loses further steam

Political uncertainty drags down EA economic sentiment

Global equities are 40% overvalued — who is vulnerable to a correction?

US economic sentiment drops in April amid trade concerns

Reconciling UK inflation forecasts

France’s digital economy needs to hit restart

Bank overly sanguine on UK growth outlook

Greece – a good time to say goodbye?

Is the euro forever and always?

Economic activity in China continues to slacken

Sweet leverage: dieting now versus toothache later

UK’s economic slowdown gathers pace

Are markets mispricing sovereign credit risk in India and Russia?

What is the Bank of England credit conditions survey telling us?

Fathom’s UK ESI confirms that the damage is already done

Japanese economic sentiment still outstripping GDP growth, but has it peaked?

QE: the theory and the evidence

US economic sentiment close to record high in March despite trade fears

Why is Fathom so pessimistic on UK growth?

Output data confirm weakening UK growth outlook

May – not a FIT-ting time to hike?

Fathom’s EA Economic Sentiment Indicators down, but not out

China’s rebalancing is still just a dream

The European dominos: standing tall for now

FANG-ache? The macro dentist will see you now

Probability of house price correction in China rising fast

Is the German economy overheating?

Trade war? What trade war?

Ireland: the MINI economy

What goes up must come down

BoE’s MPC doubles down, but a rate hike in May is not nailed on

Is it the euro area’s time to shine?

Equity outlook: valuations through a macro lens

US economic sentiment soars after tax reform and strong jobs growth

A global trade war remains an outside risk, despite US tariffs

The dawning of a new error?

Fathom’s UK ESI limps into the New Year

US economic outlook remains positive, despite mixed data

Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’

Tax cuts to drive US wages higher

Introducing Fathom’s latest quarterly forecast: what’s new?

UK inflation set to moderate in 2018

Is the German economy overheating?

‘Hawkish’ MPC too sanguine about the prospect of a sharp slowdown in growth?

FMPI confirms record policy stimulus behind Europe’s strong cyclical upturn

US GDP report highlights strong domestic economy

Banking and sovereign debt reforms essential to the euro area’s future

UK GDP better than anticipated, but Brexit weighs on the domestic economy

Japan’s ESI edges higher, but it is too soon to declare victory

Neither UK investment – nor export-orientated growth will save the day

Review of the year

Euro area: periphery spreads set to rise in 2018

Stronger growth and improved resilience

Spotting UK recessions

How technological change drives inequality

China residential property: keep starting, but stop finishing

The Phillips curve — rumours of its death are greatly exaggerated

Equity prices — beware of a correction

Globalisation’s downward pressure on prices set to ease

The Phillips curve — rumours of its death are greatly exaggerated

Merkel and Macron — Europe’s ‘golden scenario’?

Italy and the itcoin — beware the Ides of March

Spotting UK recessions

ECB: a deposit facility for the many, not just the few?

November strategy outlook

The UK MPC puts its faith in the Phillips curve

Global outlook 2017 Q4: the fundamental things apply

Europe’s dizzying debt dynamics

Sovereign fragility: did you miss me?

The rise of American zombies

What are the odds that Brexit and recession cost Mrs May her job?

Falling star?

How Trump’s revised tax plan might unfold

Too close to the state to fail

Catalonia: a constitutional Classico

Emerging market rally still has legs

The UK consumer squeeze begins to bite

Global outlook: it’s a mad, mad, mad, MAD world

Falling star?

The rise of American zombies

Central bankers ignore the elephant in the room

Solid foundations for Spain’s recovery

Is Greece finally out of the woods?

Japan’s GDP – nothing more than a sugar high

Labour market reforms top of the agenda for Mr Macron

UK MPC tries to have its cake and eat it

Fixed income and currency Q3 outlook

ECB – why this time will be different

Our expanded China Momentum Indicator shows growth rebounding – for now

India: despite medium-term uncertainty, a bright near-term outlook

Odds of a UK recession are now greater than even

Equity investors are not worried about a US/China trade war

Globalisation: it’s not over yet

Trump’s troubles: can the US economy still reach escape velocity?

US auto debt: a look under the bonnet

Don’t forget about Italy

It’s the Phillips curve, stupid

China is due a banking crisis

UK Election: exciting politics; dull economics – probably

Emerging market debt: a problem?

Germany’s residential property market – bubble or investment opportunity?

Monetary policy: when debt can do no more

How a quicker pace of tightening by the Fed would affect the US economy

Fathom’s Economic Sentiment Indicators explained

Dissecting France’s productivity performance

Euro area Economic Sentiment Indicator round-up

Have we passed peak protectionism? And if so, what’s next?

US GDP: where is all the growth?

Emerging markets: get in or get out?

Fathom’s Economic Sentiment Indicators explained

US – China summit: let the games begin!

Botched US healthcare reform – how worried should we be?

China needs fiscal reform to rebalance

Productivity puzzle: the drugs don’t work

Trump Lite or Donald Dark?

Helicopter money — a primer

The UK’s housing bubble: ready to pop?

The fantasy and the reality of China’s economic rebalancing

A two-child policy for China: A case of too little, too late?

Rebalancing is not the cause of China’s slowdown

UK GDP is the best predictor of UK GDP, literally
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