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Record heat in Geneva and Europe highlights a widening gap between cooling need and capacity, with under one in four European homes air-conditioned versus about 90% in the US. The article argues climate-driven demand for HVAC and adaptation solutions is…
The Federal Reserve raised rates by 0.25% to a 3.75%-4% range in a unanimous September decision, framed as an insurance and credibility measure to return inflation to target sooner. Projections imply one further hike by end-2026, then a hold in 2027.…
Natixis argues that Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, a hesitant communicator who avoids forward guidance, has signaled his preferred gauges: inflation breadth, broad financial conditions and alternative underlying-inflation measures such as trimmed mean and median.…
Crédit Agricole CIB's APAC International Trade & Transaction Banking teams met clients in Singapore during the GTR Asia conference on 8-9 September 2026 and a related client appreciation night. A bank panelist argued commodities sit at the centre of whether…
AQR argues that tax-aware long-short (TA LS) investing is often misunderstood by analogy to direct indexing. Both are equity strategies in separately managed accounts that incorporate taxes, but direct indexing trades to track a benchmark while harvesting…
Natixis argues Xi Jinping arrives at the Washington summit with greater leverage, as China's August exports rose 25% to $401.44bn, the trade surplus widened to $119bn and shipments to the US jumped 34.4%. Meanwhile, the Fed raised rates to 3.75%-4.00% on…
PIMCO argues the AI bond boom's effect on yields runs through the saving-investment channel, not portfolio crowding out. $1 trillion of hyperscaler capex this year consumes real resources regardless of financing mix. Surprise AI debt deals show little…
State Street's weekly outlook sees the Middle East energy crisis as the biggest risk to an otherwise constructive macro backdrop, with US midterms raising escalation odds. The Fed hiked 25bp in September and may hold before possibly reversing one hike by…
Equity volatility fell across the curve after Friday's record quarterly expiry, yet the tail did not cheapen: CBOE SKEW rose 2.40 points to 148.10 while VIX fell 4.08% to 14.81 and VIX1D dropped 12.96% to 11.42. Bond volatility rose 5.80% to 80.64 with the US…
Julius Baer reports sustained central bank gold purchases since 2022 and a strategic shift among private investors toward precious metals as diversifiers. Gold remains favoured on resilient official demand and fiscal sustainability concerns, while silver's…
Poland's wage growth slowed to 5.6% YoY in August from 6.8% in July, with real wages up just 2.1% as higher inflation and fuel prices squeeze household incomes. Private consumption is losing momentum while construction output rose 6.7% YoY in August, driven…
Oil's roughly $3/barrel decline drove lower sovereign yields across Europe and North America, with major equities up 0.75-1% while the dollar was little changed. Weekend hints of US-China progress precede Thursday's Xi-Trump meeting, though the note flags an…
As the US 10-year Treasury yield approaches 5%, higher real rates have compressed S&P 500 forward valuations from about 23x to 19x. Yet equities have stayed resilient because forward earnings growth expectations strengthened, offsetting the discount-rate…
BNP Paribas' markets snapshot for 18 September 2026 shows Brent at $103.95 (+6.8% w/w), gold at $4352 (-1.4%), and US 10Y yields at 5.00%. Bund 10Y yields 3.50%, Gilt 10Y 5.30%; EUR/USD 1.15, GBP/USD 1.34, USD/JPY 157.42. Equities were mixed with tech…
This BNP Paribas Eco Week item, published 21 September 2026 and classified to eurozone, UK and US jurisdictions, is flagged as an article coming soon with no substantive economic content yet available. The only named contributor is Francois Faure of the…
The Fed raised its funds target range 25bp to 3.75-4.00% unanimously under Chair Warsh, with 16 of 19 members seeing another hike by year-end; BNP expects at least two more, December base case. The BOJ lifted its rate to 1.25%, a 1995 high, but two dissents…
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by 25bp to 1.25% on 18 September, with two board members dissenting. Governor Ueda said the underlying CPI has moved closer to 2%, prompting a shortened three-month rate cycle. Natixis now expects 25bp hikes in…
The article argues the most consequential AI innovation is not incremental software improvement but the compression of the coordination layer, enabling AI-native services companies that sell completed outcomes rather than software seats. SMBs are the…
Natixis sees Asian growth bifurcating: China softens and drags exposed sectors, while North Asia, India and parts of ASEAN accelerate. Exports are China's key engine on a competitive real exchange rate, but ageing cuts its growth to around 1% by 2050. Japan's…
OCBC's 21 September 2026 snapshot notes the 10-year Treasury yield hovering near 5% as markets price two more hikes by year-end despite the Fed's 25bp move. US IG and HY spreads tightened 1bp and 2bp to 75bp and 267bp; Asia HY widened 10bp to 323bp. Traders…