Stock markets have generally taken a breather during November. High yield and corporate bond yields have risen, but from record lows. Since April, the Interest Rate Swap yield curve has flattened far less than Treasuries. Global economic growth forecasts continued to be revised higher.
Millennials are a generation with a list full of endowments. Web, cinema, gender-identification, feminism and technology have come of age at the same time as they have. No generation of mankind has ever witnessed as many empowering changes in the world they inhabit.
I had delivered a talk based on the Q3, 2016-17 growth numbers to understand the impact of demonetisation on them and related questions on the drive itself.
Earlier this week, the Bank of England raised interest rates for the first time in a decade, while the US Federal Reserve kept the fed funds rate unchanged. While the latter’s policy going forward is more likely to be an increase in interest rates, there is less surety about the latter.
Rising interest rates and higher bond yields are here to stay. Real estate prices seem not to be affected by higher finance costs. Household debt continues to rise especially in advanced economies. Real estate supply remains constrained and demand continues to grow.
France’s GDP grew by 0.5% in the third quarter, down slightly from 0.6% in the second. The annual rate of growth in the eurozone’s second largest economy was 2.2%, the highest since 2011, driven by consumer spending and business investment. The pace of growth matched economists’ expectations, reflecting economic stability since Emmanuel Macron became president.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017, popularly known as the Nobel Prize for economics, has been awarded to Richard H. Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics. Thaler is the second behavioural economist & scientist to win the Nobel prize after Daniel Kahneman won it in 2002 for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science.