Pantheon Publications
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- In one line: Consumers’ confidence should recover in 2026 as the fundamentals improve.
Encouraging signs, but an unreliable guide to the hard data.
In one line: More hawkish data for EZ short-term bonds to digest.
- Tax refunds are up only 10% year-over-year to date, far short of the near-30% rise we expected...
- ...But a meaningful boost to growth in consumers’ spending in H1 still looks likely.
- Layoff indicators remain subdued, but the renewed fall in NFIB hiring intentions implies weak job gains.
- Higher oil prices divide exporters and importers, as markets weigh the duration of Middle East tensions.
- The oil shock and a weak Imacec highlight Chile’s fragile growth, as manufacturing struggles…
- …Rate cuts, copper strength and fiscal consolidation shape the outlook, though geopolitics is the key risk.
- BNM held rates at 2.75%, as expected, but its statement carried an unusually cautious tone.
- Singapore’s January retail sales were weaker than expected, but highly distorted by Lunar New Year.
- We raise our 2026 CPI call for the Philippines and cut that on Thailand; the difference is fuel policy.
- Premier Li set a lower growth target for 2026, as we expected, to put the focus on structural adjustment…
- …China is reliant on export growth, but that could be in jeopardy given geopolitical tensions and trade risks.
- Korea would be more vulnerable than Japan and China to a prolonged oil-price spike.
- EZ retail sales dipped in January but likely will be revised higher; French industry rebounded.
- Mr. Trump’s threats to cut off Spanish exports lack teeth; he is unlikely to restrict US LNG exports either.
- Spanish industry will feel less pain than its ‘big four’ peers if energy prices remain elevated.
- We expect CPI inflation to decline to 2.9% in February, from 3.0% in January.
- A fall in motor fuel prices, slowing rent inflation, and a drop in live music and hotel prices drag inflation down.
- Commodity price rises mean inflation will sink to only 2.4% in June and rebound to 3.0% in September.
EUROZONE INFLATION IS SHIFTING HIGHER…
- …COULD THE ECB HIKE THIS YEAR?
In one line: Surge in investment boosted Q4 growth.
In one line: Inflation holds steady; negative rates even less likely than earlier.
In one line: Inflation holds steady; negative rates even less likely than earlier.
- In one line: Q4 confirms stagnation as tight policy weighs on capex.
- In one line: Q4 confirms stagnation as tight policy weighs on capex.
- The housing sector typically see the earliest and biggest boost from looser Fed policy…
- …But homebuilders face considerable headwinds, even if mortgage rates continue to fall.
- These constraints will blunt the boost from easier policy, making additional rate cuts more likely.
- Brazilian Real — Risk-off shock erases February gains
- Mexican Peso — Hit by the geopolitical shock
- Chilean Peso — Middle East shock flips the narrative
- China’s NPC meeting commences today; we expect a lower growth target and a focus on tech self-reliance…
- …US-China trade representatives will meet in Paris next weekend, ahead of April’s Xi-Trump Beijing summit.
- The conflict in Iran likely adds 0.1pp to East Asian inflation over a few months, due to logistics issues.
- Headline inflation in Switzerland held steady at 0.1% in February; deflation is unlikely going forward…
- …The SNB will stand pat in 2026 and will instead intervene in FX markets to stem currency strength.
- GDP growth in Italy picked up in Q4; we expect even stronger quarterly growth throughout 2026.
- Industrial production likely rebounded in January, since manufacturing activity continues to recover.
- Surging A&E attendances indicate upside risk to services output from healthcare activity.
- Output in the construction sector will fall again, as the wet weather dampened activity.
