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Story of the month Three British economists - Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School and Elroy Dimson of Cambridge University - have undertaken a painstaking task : they have traced 35 stock markets around the world back as far as possible…

Metallurgy, the main tool of the industrial transition Antoine Chacun, Managing director– ODDO BHF Metals. “Europe must conduct precisely the reverse policy to help decarbonize global metal industries. We must reduce our metallurgical deficits and encourage local competitive production by ensuring that local processing industries…

Here is a new comment from Frederik Ducrozet, Head of Macroeconomic Research, at Pictet Wealth Management, on euro area wages following today’s (strong) number, and below a short summary. Euro area negotiated wage growth surprised to the upside in Q1, rising to 4.7% YoY from 4.5%…

Europe at the polls: what’s at stake for the future ? Bruno Cavalier, Chief Economist ODDO BHF Asset Management. KEY HIGHLIGHTS: The ​ ​ last ​ ​ parliamentary ​ ​ term ​ ​ was ​ ​ marked ​ ​ by ​ ​ the pandemic and…

The case for private debt in a widening funding gap Andreas Klein, Head of Private Debt Pictet Asset Management. With banks curtailing lending, private debt can step in to support healthy companies. Scarcity of capital and higher funding costs make today’s credit backdrop extremely difficult…

As AI fuels the need for ever more data, we require data centres to store and process all the information securely. Businesses which contribute to the efficiency of data centres will have the upper hand. Rachele Beata, Investment Manager Pictet Asset Management. The rise of…

May 2024 Economic conditions in Europe are improving while interest rates in the region could soon head lower. This augurs well for European stocks, which we upgrade to overweight. Asset allocation: Europe edges ahead April proved a cruel month for risky assets, but we believe…

Delayed but not derailed César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investment Officer, Pictet Wealth Management. THE WEEK IN REVIEW US stocks got a late-week boost in the form of significant cooling in the nonfarm payrolls report for April as well as a slowdown in wage growth. Reassurances also…

M&A pick up César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investment Officer, Pictet Wealth Management. THE WEEK IN REVIEW Financial markets were rattled last week by inflation data that seemed to bury any hope of a near-term rate cut in the US. But Q1 results, especially from major…

Below you will find a new commentary by Xiao Cui, Senior Economist Pictet Wealth Management, on the FED. We expect a hawkish hold at the FOMC this week. Chair Powell is likely to note it would take longer than expected to achieve confidence needed to cut rates and…