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Why BlackRock is taking a risk-on view

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... in long-term yields. We think the BOJ will act cautiously and not sabotage the return of mild inflation. We also up Euro area inflation-linked bonds to neutral as market expectations for persistent inflation have eased," it said. "Bottom line: We see ...

ECB raises rates to record high of 4%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2023
... deteriorating global trade conditions, the ECB has lowered their economic growth projections significantly. Now it expects the Euro area economy to expand by 0.7% in 2023, 1.0% in 2024, and 1.5% in 2025. "Based on its current assessment, the governing ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... hope that "although downside risks associated with the pandemic remain in the near term" the "...risks surrounding the euro area growth outlook have become more balanced". The 'minutes' "re-emphasised the dichotomy between continued elevated ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... (EC) fresh forecasts take all these on board, including surrendering to the inevitability of another recession, the "euro area economies are expected to contract in the first quarter of 2021". But there's a light at the end of this dark tunnel, "Economic ...

Chief economist update: ECB expands PEPP

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... the Eurozone "economy to begin functioning under more normal circumstances" but warned that "the risks surrounding the euro area outlook remain tilted to the downside". The last paragraph of the ECB's December policy statement provide a synopsis ...

Chief economist update: ECB keeps it steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... slump predicted in June. Growth projections for the year 2021 and 2022 were unchanged at 5% and 3.2%, respectively. Euro area economic growth dropped by 14.7% in the year to the June quarter, that followed a 3.2% decline in the March quarter and a 1% ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... apples with apples -- the latest GDP update on the Eurozone shows that the single-currency region is far from immune. Euro area GDP fell by 3.8% in the March quarter. Annualised, this translates to a 14.4% drop in national (or euro-wide) output with ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... equities Within equities, its highest conviction overweight is to US stocks while the highest-conviction underweight is to Euro area. "We are overweight US equities for their relative quality bias and the sizable policy response to the outbreak: large ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... Sluggish Recovery?" contained in its January 2020 'World Economic Outlook" was all about the Eurozone. "Growth in the euro area is projected to pick up from 1.2 percent in 2019 to 1.3 percent in 2020 (a downward revision of 0.1 percentage point) ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... president; nor was there urgent need to do so. The December 2019 Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area was broadly unchanged from its September forecasts. Annual real GDP is expected to grow by 1.2% this year (up from September's ...
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