“Escape valve” for global risk assets
US stock markets have crumpled in the past few weeks. While this has put pressure on global risk assets, it has been nullified to some extent by the US dollar’s...
US stock markets have crumpled in the past few weeks. While this has put pressure on global risk assets, it has been nullified to some extent by the US dollar’s...
Many financial experts forecast that the US dollar could go down strongly over the long term. This being said, the Standard Bank remains reticent to believe that a...
Risk assets are very vulnerable again because of the cliff-edge drop off in the global economy which will be devoid of any monetary help by central banks.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict might not have spurred the same dramatic sell-off in risk assets that we saw in the wake of COVID-19, or the financial crisis, but the...
The US dollar rose and risk assets such as stocks fell after the latest set of hawkish minutes were released by the Fed earlier this week. The market seems to fear the...
There may be question marks about the length and extent of the Fed’s upcoming monetary tightening cycle but there’s little doubt that bond purchases will slow down and...
Risk assets such as stocks and EM currencies were pulled through the wringer last week. There could be more to come but the Standard Bank does not anticipate a...