Global Macroeconomics Team
Team
The Economic Monitoring Team is responsible for the Prospects Daily and the Prospects Weekly. The Prospects Daily is compiled each weekday morning to provide an update of the latest developments in world markets, focusing on growth, trade and prices, interest rate policy, as well as commodity markets, and ascertaining the implications for developing countries.
The Prospects Weekly aims to provide a review and brief analysis of developments in global markets over the previous weekly period, highlighting emerging trends in high-income and developing countries. Typically the Prospects Weekly will be posted each Friday.
Both publications include contributions from the following individuals:
- John Baffes
- Derek Chen
- Damir Cosic
- Raju Huidrom
- Gerard Kambou
- Tehmina Khan
- EJ Kim
- Mizuho Kida
- Franziska Ohnsorge
- Marc Stocker
- Ekaterine Vashakmadze
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- Prospects Daily: Euro-area bond yields hit historic lows, German business confidence improves for the first time in seven months, Russia’s retail sales stagnate after ruble plunges
- Prospects Weekly: China’s credit-to-GDP ratio reached 251 percent of GDP in mid-2014, up from 156 percent at the end of 2007
- Prospects Daily: Global stocks soar on China and ECB moves, Germany’s leading index flat in September, China cuts interest key rates for the first time since 2012
- Prospects Daily: Global equities fall on growth concerns, Eurozone’s flash PMI signals weakest growth in 16 months,Turkey holds key interest rates
- Prospects Daily: Russian government resumes domestic borrowing, Japan’s leading index improves, Russia’s industrial production accelerates in October
- Prospects Daily: Mexico to issue bonds with new collective action clauses, German investor confidence rises first time this year, Indonesia hikes fuel prices by over 30%
- Prospects Daily: Global equities retreat on Japanese recession, US industrial production stalls in October,Turkey’s unemployment stable in August
- Prospects Daily: Strengthening dollar and U.S. consumer sentiment both at seven-year highs, Malaysian economy slows
- Prospects Weekly: Oil prices dropped almost 20 percent between May and October 2014, A sustained decline in oil prices could worsen the fiscal positions of oil producers
- Prospects Daily: Oil price falls to new 4-year low, Eurozone inflation and growth outlook downgraded, Turkey’s current account deficit narrower than expected
- Prospects Daily: Ukraine bonds tumble on default concern, India industrial production expands more than expected
- Prospects Daily: Japanese equities surge on weaker yen, while outlook on economy deteriorates, South Africa’s manufacturing output expands faster than expected
- Prospects Daily: Chinese shares rally on Shanghai-Hong Kong stock trading link, Ruble free floats, Turkey’s industrial production expands more than expected in September
- Prospects Daily: Russia’s ruble rallies after a four-day retreat, Germany’s industrial output rises less than expected, Hungary’s trade surplus increases unexpectedly
- Prospects Daily: Euro slide to 2-year low, ECB keeps interest rates unchanged, Russia’s October Services PMI drops
- Prospects Daily: Ruble falls to record low as Russia's central bank set limit for foreign currency intervention, U.S. adds 230,000 private sector jobs, Indonesia’s GDP growth slows in Q3
- Prospects Daily: Japan’s vehicle sales continue to decline in October, Brazil’s industrial production unexpectedly falls
- Prospects Daily: Gold price falls to near four-year low, Eurozone’s manufacturing PMI revised down, Turkey’s inflation exceeds forecasts
- Prospects Daily: Global equities rally on Japan’s stimulus boost, Japan unexpectedly expands monetary stimulus, Russia hikes interest rate
- Prospects Daily: Treasury yield curve becomes flattest since November 2012, U.S. Q3 GDP growth beats expectations, Brazil unexpectedly increases interest rates
- Prospects Daily: Russia boosts its gold reserves by the most since sovereign default in 1998, Japanese industrial production growth increases beating expectations, Chinese consumer sentiment near all-time low
- Prospects Daily: Money outflows from euro area bonds at record pace, U.S. consumer confidence at seven-year high, Industrial profits increase in China
- Prospects Daily: ECB releases results of stress test on Europe’s banks, German business confidence and outlook weakens, Brazil’s current account deficit widens and consumer confidence drops
- Prospects Daily: Chinese stocks post steepest weekly drop in 4 months, Eurozone’s PMI marginally improves in October, Turkey central bank leaves rates unchanged
- Prospects Daily: Oil prices rise after Saudi Arabia cuts its oil supplies, U.S. leading economic index improves more-than-expected, Chinese manufacturing PMI rises marginally in October
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