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LAST WEEK
Dow
Suffers Worst Streak Since 2011, Yield Curves Collapse
NEXT WEEK
Economic
Calendar – Berenberg
World
Week Ahead – WSJ
Global
Central Banks Calendar – WSJ
Week ahead: US
Consumption and UK Wages – Marc
Chandler
Shipping:
Oil tankers sheltered from gas, dry bulk weakness
Weighing
the Week Ahead – Dash of Insight
EU
Week Ahead: – WSJ
Tomorrow,
we will see China’s trade data and growth in industrial production will come
out on Wednesday. Next week’s key events in the US are the retail sales and
industrial production figures. The most scrutinised data from the Euro area
will be GDP and the German ZEW index. In the Scandis, Norway and Sweden will
deliver inflation figures.
Gasoline
prices have been resilient to the oil price drop resulting in a modest impact
on consumers * Fed’s Lockhart provided a hawkish shift in Fed rhetoric which
supports our call for a September hike * The Fed pricing is still too subdued
and we expect higher short-term US yields and lower EUR/USD * The euro area
periphery countries are recovering but political uncertainty is looming * Bank
of England more dovish than expected due to strong sterling and lower oil price
Worries
about Greece appear to have been replaced by concerns about China and the
global cycle more generally. It has been a bad start to the year, with global
economic growth disappointing. However, advanced economy demand is stepping up
a gear, and global industrial production will likely follow. Although downside
risks to China’s outlook persist, we still expect a soft landing. Meanwhile,
the Fed looks on track for a September rate hike, while the BoE is likely to
wait until 2016. Greece appears to be moving closer to an ESM deal, but Grexit
risks could well return in coming months.
Emerging
Markets currencies have suffered another round of heavy losses in recent
months. The ten EM currencies we cover have weakened almost 10% vs the USD just
this year and almost 20% vs a year ago. We keep our moderately bearish view on
EM FX for the remainder of this year, although a simple fair-value model puts
the average EM FX undervaluation at 15% vs the USD or close to two standard
errors away from fair value.
Dollar
Outlook and Currency Rotation