Coming into 2023 and 2024, much of the talk on Bay and Wall Streets surrounded the potential for, and timing of, an upcoming recession. The general narrative for both years was that inflation and interest rates were too high and would suffocate consumer borrowing and...
Relative to the mostly dire economic forecasts made a year ago, 2023 turned in a strong all-around performance as inflation fell across most major economies from the peaks experienced in 2022. Importantly, this performance happened without a recession as most...
In our latest Foyston for Thought Video series, we present three episodes featuring Cameron Greenwood, Vice President & Portfolio Manager – Fixed Income, discussing the outlook for inflation and interest rates. He also explains the risks of a recession. [video...
The surprise election of Donald Trump as U.S. president overshadowed world economic and market events during the quarter.
The synchronized global economic expansion continued to support markets during the quarter. The year will be remembered as an unusual one with strong global economic and financial market performance paired with heightened political uncertainty. A lack of clarity...
Economically speaking, compared with other developed market economies, the U.S. was a standout for most of 2018. U.S. tax cuts and a large fiscal expansion improved GDP growth while most other developed economies slowed.
Despite ending the year (and decade) on a positive tone, the economic outlook remains somewhat murky. While progress has been made on several big issues faced by financial markets in 2019, loose ends which could unravel in 2020 remain.
The global economy is poised for another year of abovetrend growth in 2022, albeit at a slower pace than 2021. At this time last year, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecast global economic growth of 4.2% in 2021, following an...
One year ago, expectations for the global economy were generally positive: a slimmed-down continuation of the reflationary theme experienced in 2020 resulting from pent-up demand, robust fundamentals, and constrained supply. Decent nominal GDP growth of around 6.5%...
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