In Q3, global economic data was mixed. There were positives from the world’s largest economy, depending on how you view positive economic data! In this case, the ongoing resilience shown by the US was combined with another bout of energy inflation, leading to concerns inflation may take longer to move back into the preferred range of the Federal Reserve. This has led to concerns that interest rates, while expected to be nearing their peak, may linger around their current level for longer.
Read MoreIn media forecasts for 2020, a global pandemic and the worst recession since the 1930s weren’t high on everyone’s list of threats. But even had these events been foreseen, who would have tipped global equities to reach record highs a year later?
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