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Global Credit Risks Rise as Recessions, Gas Crisis Loom

October 19, 2022/Fitch Ratings Global credit risks have risen over the past quarter as the triple threat of rate rises, Europe’s gas crisis and China’s moribund property market show no sign of abating, Fitch Ratings says in its latest Risk Headquarters report. While our base-case forecasts were revised in September […]

Carbon markets and climate funding – capitalising on synergies

October 18, 2022/EBRD By Nigina Mirbabaeva Image Credit: EBRD A new survey report highlight the growing appetite for blending the two instruments As the momentum to curb global warming gathers pace, carbon markets have become recognised as fundamental to scaling up and accelerating the green transition: carbon pricing enables cost efficient […]

Further tilt to the downside in WEO script

October 14, 2022/Coronation Research The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) has left its global forecast for 2022 unchanged at 3.2% y/y and has trimmed its projection for next year from 2.9% y/y to 2.7% y/y. The outlook projects contractions for one-third of the global economy in the near-term. We […]