- MARKET INSIGHTS
- Fév 3, 2023
DAX 40 surged on Thursday despite hawkish ECB tone.
- MARKET INSIGHTS
- Fév 3, 2023
DAX 40 surged on Thursday despite hawkish ECB tone.
Global growth slowed through 2022 on a confluence of unprecedented events, fiscal and monetary tightening, China’s Zero-COVID restrictions and the Russia-Ukraine war, which led to significant declines across asset classes.
The events from last year have a profound impact on the outlook for 2023, affecting not only economic growth and inflation, but also central bank policy, interest rates, credit quality, earnings, valuations, investor sentiment, and other critical performance indicators.
On Tuesday, the World Bank has issued a revised growth forecast for 2023, which bears dire implications for the global economy. The new projection of a mere 1.7% GDP growth is the lowest recorded outside of recessionary periods since 1993 and represents a substantial decline from the June 2022 forecast of 3.0% and the 6% growth of 2021.
Furthermore, the bank forecasts a modest 2.7% growth for 2024, and an average growth rate of under 2% for the entire 2020-2024 period – the most anaemic five-year span since 1960. The bank also cautions that major slowdowns in advanced economies such as the United States and the Eurozone may portend an impending global recession.
The World Bank’s recent assessment of global economic conditions highlights that while some inflationary pressures have begun to ease towards the end of 2022, partially helped by declining prices for energy and commodities, the potential for new supply disruptions remains high.
The bank noted that core inflation may persist at elevated levels and central banks may need to adjust policy rates more drastically than currently anticipated, potentially exacerbating the already pronounced global economic slowdown.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday that annual inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index declined to 6.5% in December from 7.1% in November, and in line with market forecasts. This is the lowest reading since December 2021, encouraging hopes that the Federal Reserve will shift to smaller 25 basis point increments and could soon stop raising interest rates. On a monthly basis, the CPI declined by 0.1% following November’s increase of 0.1%.
The annual Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose by 5.7% on a yearly basis in December, compared to a 6% rise in November and in line with forecasts. The monthly Core CPI rose by 0.3%, compared to a 0.2% rise in the prior month, also in line with expectations.
Despite core inflation dynamics still looking strong the U.S. dollar index dropped, as investors priced in an earlier and lower end to the Fed’s monetary tightening cycle. Nonetheless, we should bear in mind that markets have tried several times to anticipate peak rates, but so far have failed each time.
Source: Tradingview
The cooling inflation print for December; however, signals that we are getting closer to peak rates, even if we’re not quite there yet. Market expectations of a 25-basis point rate hike by the Federal Reserve in February spiked to 91% after the release of the CPI data, from 77% previously.
Despite remaining well above central bank targets at present, inflation should continue to moderate further as the economy slows, the labour market weakens, and supply chain pressures continue to ease. Now the focus will shift to fourth quarter reporting season as consensus view is that earnings will collapse, bringing the stock market down with them.
Friday kicks off the start of the fourth-quarter earnings season for S&P 500 companies with number of big U.S. banks reporting. The U.S. banks are forecast to report lower fourth-quarter profits, as lenders stockpile funds to prepare for an economic slowdown. Still market bulls are hoping the slowdown in inflation may pave the way for the Fed to be able to bring down consumer prices without severely supressing growth.
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Violeta a rejoint Leverage Shares en septembre 2022. Elle est chargée de mener des analyses techniques et des recherches sur les actions et macroéconomiques, fournissant des informations importantes pour aider à façonner les stratégies d’investissement des clients.
Avant de rejoindre LS, Violeta a travaillé dans plusieurs sociétés d’investissement de premier plan en Australie, telles que Tollhurst et Morgans Financial, où elle a passé les 12 dernières années de sa carrière.
Violeta est une technicienne de marché certifiée de l’Australian Technical Analysts Association et est titulaire d’un diplôme d’études supérieures en finance appliquée et investissement de Kaplan Professional (FINSIA), Australie, où elle a été conférencière pendant plusieurs années.
Julian a étudié l’économie, la psychologie, la sociologie, la politique européenne et la linguistique. Il possède de l’expérience en matière de développement commercial et de marketing grâce à des entreprises qu’il a lui-même créées.
Pour Julian, Leverage Shares est une entreprise innovante dans le domaine de la finance et de la fintech, et il se réjouit toujours de partager les prochaines grandes avancées avec les investisseurs du Royaume-Uni et d’Europe.
Oktay a rejoint Leverage Shares fin 2019. Il est responsable de la croissance de l’activité à travers des relations clés et le développement de l’activité commerciale sur les marchés anglophones.
Il a rejoint LS après UniCredit, où il était responsable des relations avec les entreprises pour les multinationales. Il a également travaillé au sein de sociétés telles qu’IBM Bulgarie et DeGiro / FundShare dans le domaine de la finance d’entreprise et de l’administration de fonds.
Oktay est titulaire d’une licence en finance et comptabilité et d’un certificat d’études supérieures en entrepreneuriat du Babson College. Il est également détenteur de la certification CFA.
Sandeep a une longue expérience des marchés financiers. Il a débuté sa carrière en tant qu’ingénieur financier au sein d’un hedge fund basé à Chicago. Pendant huit ans, il a travaillé dans différents domaines et organisations, de la division Prime Services de Barclays Capital à l’équipe de recherche sur les indices du Nasdaq (plus récemment).
Sandeep est titulaire d’un master spécialisé en finance et d’un master en administration des affaires de I’Institut de technologie de Chicago.
