There are a plethora of issues weighing on asset markets though sentiment has improved slightly today. Weak Chinese trade data over the weekend and a revision lower to Japanese GDP data yesterday added to growing global growth concerns, against the background of waning hopes of a resolution to the US-China trade war.
US administration comments that there was a hard deadline for trade talks have not helped sentiment either. News today that Chinese Vice Premier Liu He spoke with US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin and US Trade Rep Lighthizer on a timetable and road map on trade talks provided some relief, however.
In the US, growth expectations are undergoing a shift and talk of a Fed pause is growing. This would be considered as good news for EM if it wasn’t for the fact that a pause could be due to US growth concerns rather than any sense that the Fed was approaching its terminal rate. US November CPI, retail sales, and industrial production data will give more clues, but I still think the Fed policy rates next week.
In the UK, Brexit worries have intensified following the decision by Prime Minister May to the delay the vote on a deal in parliament given she would most likely would have faced a defeat had it gone ahead. May will now go on a tour of European capitals to try to improve the Brexit deal but prospects don’t look good, especially as European Council president Tusk has already ruled out any negotiation of the deal and in particular the Irish backstop.
GBP was pummeled as a result of the delay and will continue to struggle in the short term given the lack visibility. A revised deal appears difficult while a hard Brexit and even a new referendum are all on the table.
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