Five Grey Swans That Could Swing Markets

In our base case, the global economy is poised to improve in 2020 and the outperformance gap between the United States (the US) and other developed market economies is likely to shrink. After all, December 2019 brought to fruition the US–Mexico–Canada Agreement, the phase 1 US-China trade deal, a US budget agreement and a clear mandate by the British electorate to follow through on Brexit. Consequently, we expect global growth to reach 3.5% barring additional geopolitical shocks. We see interest rates remaining low and inflation being contained but moving a bit higher globally.