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- AI-driven layoffs still look limited, but productivity gains seem to be limiting hiring in a few sectors.
- This drag on labor demand, however, looks relatively small compared to the broader AI economic boost.
- We still think AI is more likely to shift the composition of labor demand than depress it significantly.
- Government spending and resilient household demand continue to support activity in Colombia.
- Construction, housing and tradeable sectors remain weak, limiting productive-capacity growth.
- Persistent domestic demand reinforces inflation pressures and strengthens the case for rate hikes.
- GDP growth in Thailand rose unexpectedly in Q1, to 2.8%, but inventories hid a broad domestic easing…
- …We maintain our 2.2% growth forecast for 2026, implying a sustained slowdown to 1.0% by Q4.
- India’s scorching WPI print was no surprise to us, and we find much comfort in still-tepid WPI food.
- Simple as well as hybrid Taylor Rule models suggest the ECB will hike by 75-to-100bp this year.
- Our fair value models see sticky Bund yields around 3%, but fiscal stimulus looms as an upside risk.
- Our forecasts assume that the 2s10s curve will flatten as the ECB tightens.
- Betting markets give Sir Keir Starmer only 15% chance of being Prime Minister after September.
- So, rates markets have likely mostly priced in the impact of the Labour Party leadership changing.
- We estimate 10-year yields would rise another 7-to-10bp should Mr. Burnham win a leadership contest.
Thai growth sees a natural payback from the interim government pop
Analysts were also too gloomy on Singapore exports
In one line: April's weak economic data due to energy shock and severe weather
Supply-chain risks prompting a rush of activity and greater price pressures.
- In one line: Some reassuring developments, but take the y/y leaps with a pinch of salt.
- In one line: Inflation persistence is becoming harder for the BCRP to dismiss.
- In one line: Inflation persistence is becoming harder for the BCRP to dismiss.
- In one line: Early Easter exaggerates the fall, but it was a weak reading nonetheless.
- In one line: Noise exaggerates growth, but GDP was nonetheless solid heading into the Iran War.
- In one line: Few signs of a spillover from higher energy prices into core import costs, yet.
- In one line: House price inflation to remain weak in 2026 as higher interest costs bite.
- In one line: Uncertainty hits permanent hiring, but vacancies improve, suggesting the job market is holding up.
Margins are unlikely to remain this high for long.
Strength in sales likely to unwind as tax refunds taper off.
- Supercore inflation averaged 2.1% in the 2010s, but failed to fall below 3% in 2025, and has risen this year.
- Unit labor cost growth for services firms is still 0.5pp above its 2010s average, but is now slowing sharply.
- Fiscal support to households has bolstered services firms’ margins, but other supports will linger.
- Durable goods and targeted credit programmes continue to cushion consumption in Brazil.
- Food inflation and softer essential spending point to growing pressure on household purchasing power.
- Fiscal and quasi-fiscal stimulus support near-term activity but complicate the disinflation process.
