Women have a significantly longer life expectancy than men – but the lead has shrunk from 6.8 years to 4.8 years in the last forty years. Lifestyle changes are responsible for this: while men are becoming more health-conscious and avoid risks, women seem to be moving in the opposite direction. This development can be observed in all rich countries: The men are catching up.
After the U.S.-China trade feud slashed global trade growth to its slowest pace since 2009 last year (+1.2% in volume terms), we expect the Covid-19 outbreak to act as a major trade barrier in 2020.
The Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency move designed to bolster the U.S. economy amid risks posed by the Covid-19 outbreak.
Solid fundamentals will continue to drive housing in 2020. The housing market, which had been lagging through the first half of 2019, has enjoyed a recent rebound.
Major insolvencies are on the rise in the global agrifood industry.At first glance, the global agrifood industry appears to be performing well, helped by the growing global population, especially in Asia.
As expected, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Turkey disregarded rising inflation and once again cut its key policy one-week repo rate today, by 50bp to 10.75%.
After four consecutive years of strong economic growth above the potential rate, the high-flying German economy experienced a sharp deceleration in momentum in 2018. The combination of some key characteristics of Europe’s largest economy proved highly unfavorable in an environment of slowing global momentum and elevated political uncertainty.
On top of the upward trend in business insolvencies , we identify a record level of failures of large companies - those with over EUR50mn of turnover- with 342 major insolvencies totaling more than EUR205bn in turnover in 2019.
