Episodes
Episodes



7 days ago
Stemming the US crisis of confidence
7 days ago
7 days ago
This week’s Global Markets podcast takes place against a backdrop of financial market turmoil with signs of a building crisis of confidence in US assets. Derek Halpenny, Head of Research Global Markets EMEA & International Securities talks to Chris Jakubowski Head of FI FX Sales about what needs to happen to halt the slide in confidence. There are certain actions that would help but none seems that likely. Derek and Chris also discuss the prospects for JPY and the BoJ’s stance in the midst of increased financial market turmoil.
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Friday Apr 11, 2025
US reciprocal tariffs – sustainability implications
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
US President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of (1) a 10% baseline tariff effective from 5 April, along with (2) a set of higher, country-specific “reciprocal” rates on 57 trade partners with which the US has trade deficits from 9 April, has jolted global markets. Chinese policymakers have promptly responded with a broad set of countermeasures that mirrors the US move.
Global financial markets have been in turmoil post the “Liberation Day” announcements with stock markets shedding trillions of dollars, credit spreads widening, oil prices tumbling and currencies gyrating wildly.
From a sustainability lens, if tariffs are sustained, they will raise the stakes for the survival or repeal of advanced manufacturing credits in the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – the largest climate legislation in US history.
Ehsan Khoman, Head of Research – Commodities, ESG and Emerging Markets (EMEA), discusses the reverberations of these tariff increases across the sustainability complex, wherein he believes that batteries and battery energy storage systems (BESS) are particularly exposed to the new tariffs given the limits to domestic US manufacturing.



Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
Trump’s Tariff-palooza: Macro & Market Impacts…
Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
George Goncalves, Head of Macro Strategy in the Americas, walks us through the latest tariff developments and potential implications for the economy and markets. As a reminder, a palooza is informally viewed as a large frenzied event, thus it’s apt to call this latest version a “tariff-palooza” as markets got jolted by the larger than expected and broad-based announcement on “Liberation Day.” Although the approach the administration has taken a tougher stance on fiscal spending and trade negotiations, it is directionally in line with our 2025 Outlook, given all the uncertainty that this latest tariff rounds have had on both investors and corporate America, unless the tariffs are not fully binding and or get negotiated away quickly, the recent volatility has raised our recession risks.



Friday Apr 04, 2025
What has been the impact of Trump’s tariff war in the FX market?
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Lee Hardman, Senior Currency Analyst, and Jack Greenslade of UK, Ireland, Switzerland and Middle East Corporate Sales, discuss the impact of President Trump’s tariff plans for the FX market. Will an escalating trade war lead to further strength for safe haven currencies such as the yen?
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Friday Mar 28, 2025
Reciprocal tariff plans are not fully priced
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Friday Mar 28, 2025
The US dollar is weaker this week against most G10 currencies ahead of the key reciprocal tariff announcement on 2nd April. Derek Halpenny, Head of Research Global Markets EMEA & International Securities talks to Shan Husain Institutional FX Sales EMEA about how the markets are positioned ahead of the announcement and what we can expect in the days and weeks following. Derek suggests financial markets are possibly overly optimistic about the potential impact.
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Friday Mar 28, 2025
Navigating "secondary tariffs" in global energy markets
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Friday Mar 28, 2025
US President Trump has threatened to impose “secondary tariffs” at a rate of 25% on countries that purchase crude oil from Venezuela, aiming to stymie its oil trade with other nations. The move is seen as a novel dimension in the new US administrations policy toolkit to use as leverage in achieving its foreign and domestic policy goals.
Ehsan Khoman, Head of Research – Commodities, ESG and Emerging Markets (EMEA), discusses the reverberations of these “secondary tariffs” and offers reasons to believe why the gravitational tilt for oil prices remains to the downside despite the risks of a removal of crude barrels from global oil markets.



Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Lee Hardman, Senior Currency Analyst, and Seiko Kataoka-Fisher, Director from Japanese Customer Sales for EMEA in London, discuss the latest policy updates from the Fed, BoJ, BoE. How is heightened uncertainty related to President Trump's policy plans impacting central bank communication?
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Friday Mar 21, 2025
Tariffs, inflation expectations and the outperformance of commodities
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Uncertainty about US policy, especially trade policy, has contributed to substantial rises in inflation uncertainty and in the University of Michigan’s measure of long-term US household inflation expectations, which has risen to the highest since 1995.
Ehsan Khoman, Head of Research – Commodities, ESG and Emerging Markets (EMEA), believes that as tariff threats, inflation expectations and inflation uncertainty rise further, commodities act as a critical inflation hedge as physical assets historically deliver strong real returns when inflation rises, while equity and bond real returns tend to be negative.



Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
March 2025 FOMC Preview: Not in a hurry to get worried
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
George Goncalves, Head of Macro Strategy in the Americas, recaps what has been driving market volatility as well as where he thinks broader markets may go in the short-run. Additionally, he goes over what to expect at the March FOMC meeting where the Fed likely conveys a neutral message as they are "not in a hurry" to cut rates or get worried about the recent market vol and financial conditions tightening.



Friday Mar 14, 2025
Eventful week ahead with BoJ key for JPY direction
Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
The dollar is ending this week on a weaker footing and Derek Halpenny, Head of Research Global Markets EMEA & International Securities talks to Simon Mayes Head of UK, Ireland & Switzerland FX Corporate Sales about the drivers in the FX markets and looks ahead to the numerous central bank meetings taking place on Wednesday and Thursday. Derek hones in on the BoJ and the yen and highlights the key focuses of the BoJ meeting for the markets and how JGB yields are an important influence of JPY direction.
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