Trump’s victory has been yet another nail in the coffin of the breed which has ruled the world for decades. This bipartisan group exists in every country, but is well connected via the G-7 and the G-20, as well of course by the EU and the collateral networks of the World Bank and AMC.
BoAML | Council member Nowotny stated on 9 November that “how the Fed reacts” will be “key”. Unfortunately, the ECB will meet before the FOMC, on 8 December. The ECB will need to rely on its own and the market’s expectations of the Fed.
A real estate tycoon and reality showman will head the world’s most powerful nation, winning an astonishing victory grounded on outright lies and a shallow promise to make America great. His roguish conduct, threats and abuse towards Hillary Clinton, migrants, women, disabled persons and servicemen killed in action, did not deter voters from supporting him.
Francesco Saraceno | Is the last BoJ move a serious risk to blow credibility. If it failed to lift the inflation to the 2% target, how can it be credibly believed to overshoot it? Credibility was associated in the past three decades to changing incentives over time, and invoked to recommend rules over discretion. Today, eight years into the zero lower bound, we go back to a more intuitive definition of credibility: announcing an objective and not being able to attain it.
A stock market catastrophe has been announced if Donald Trump won. However, after the intitial shock, most of European financial places, except Ibex, have closed, upwards. Despite Mr. Trump is a political newcomer we may not understimate his capacity of turning his latest endeavor into a success.
Julis Baer Research | This ruling against May came rather surprisingly and nourished hopes of the Brexit opposition that Parliament would still be able to prevent a Brexit. We however do not believe that Parliament would fully cancel the Brexit, standing up against the majority of voters. Furthermore, the last word is not spoken yet, it will depend on the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump has finally triumphed in the US presidential elections, after winning in key states like Florida, Ohio and Pennyslvania. The Republican Party has a secured control of the House of Representatives (the lower house of the US Congress) and it also looks like it will maintain control of the Senate (the upper house).
Natixis AM | The two US presidential contenders offer very different programs, and often vastly diverging, solutions. The combination of both would have a number of somewhat contradictory effects that would affect all US citizens.
My view is that recessions don’t come along for any real reasons, the cycles are not real. They have financial origins. This is where I see the risk: that an unexpected event leads to a plunge in the stock markets (don’t lets forget that world markets are highly correlated, and one can make the other move), and this ends up hitting the banking sector.
Deutsche AM | Should investors care about political campaigns? As we argued in the CIO View Special introducing our 2016 U.S. elections watch, it is easy to get carried away by rash campaign promises in the ups and downs of 24-hour news cycles