Daily Archives: January 30, 2011

In this regular series of weekend blogs on the major events in the world of global macro, the last blog of the month will reflect on the main themes of the whole month, not just the latest week. In January, rising inflation risks in the emerging markets dominated market behaviour and worries about unrest in the Middle East, and the wider impact of higher agricultural prices, replaced the European sovereign debt crisis as the main concern for global markets. Global equities and bonds were little changed during the month, but developed markets out-performed the emerging world. Global and US activity indicators remained encouraging, but the Fed showed no signs of an imminent change in its policy stance. Next week will see the publication of the US ISM and employment data, and the markets will doubtless stay focused on events in Egypt.

Gavyn Davies

on macroeconomics

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Gavyn Davies is a macroeconomist who is now chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management and co-founder of Prisma Capital Partners. He was the head of the global economics department at Goldman Sachs from 1987-2001, and was chairman of the BBC from 2001-2004.

He has also served as an economic policy adviser in No 10 Downing Street, an external adviser to the British Treasury, and as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

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