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11/14/2017
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Global growth recovery: A real or a false start?

Global Growth Recoveries

For once, the summer proved to be particularly quiet. No major events disrupted the path taken by the world economy. While the summers of 2015 and 2016 were marked by the stock market crash in China and then by Brexit, thesummer of 2017 was, instead, characterised by historically low volatility on financial markets at the end of July, while numerous stock market indices like the S&P 500 and the MSCI Emerging Markets reached record highs. Is this situation a source of concern? Does it seem like a potential excess of confidence, and can we fear a possible bursting of a bubble? Could corporate profitability suffer from financial markets turmoil? On the economic front in  appearance, activity is bouncing back, leading us to upgrade 14 sectors (only 2 downgrades). Europe is still on an upward trajectory (upgrade of Hungary, Finland, and Cyprus’ assessments), and capital flows are coming back in large emerging economies,even though they will remain vulnerable to the Fed monetary policy and to political risk.particularly quiet. No major eventsdisrupted the path taken by the worldeconomy. While the summers of 2015and 2016 were marked by the stockmarket crash in China and then by Brexit, thesummer of 2017 was, instead, characterised byhistorically low volatility on financial markets atthe end of July, while numerous stock marketindices like the S&P 500 and the MSCI EmergingMarkets reached record highs.Is this situation a source of concern? Does

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