Podzept - With Deutsche Bank Research

The 8th annual survey of global prices and living standards from various countries and cities around the world is out! In this podcast Jim Reid, Global Head of Fundamental Credit Strategy and Thematic Research, highlights the cities that have seen the biggest change not only over the last year but also over the last five years.

The US government raised tariffs on USD 200 bn of imports from China on May 10. Michael Spencer, Asia Pacific Chief Economist, discusses how much pain this, and the five tariff announcements last year, causes the US and Chinese economies.

China's USD 12-trillion stock market is a vast and complicated panoply of different share types across a wide variety of markets, exchanges and share classes. With the rising role of A-shares amongst international emerging markets indices, understanding the market dynamics of China's equity markets will be increasingly critical. Listen to Will Stephens, Head of Asia Synthetic Equity and Derivatives Research and co-head of Asia Pacific Equity Strategy.

Torsten Slok, Chief Economist, shares key highlights from his Monthly Chart Book, which details some of the most important macro and economic drivers impacting markets today.

The Indian consumer sector has been a stock market darling, outperforming the Sensex by over 25 percentage points over the last two years. What are the megatrends to drive growth in the next five years? Listen to Mihir Shah, Analyst on the Consumer Staples team in India, discuss his findings.

Over the last 12 months sportswear brand shares have risen 30 per cent. Listen to Jaina Mistry, analyst on Deutsche Bank’s European Sporting Goods and Luxury team, and Paul Trussell, US Apparel & Food Retail analyst discuss the market optimism despite concerns about global growth.

April 1st marked an important milestone of China’s financial market as Chinese Yuan denominated bonds will be included in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. Linan Liu, Greater China Rates & FX Strategist, discusses how its inclusion will affect China’s domestic market, the Yuan and why it makes sense for global investors to invest in RMB bonds.

Torsten Slok, Chief Economist, shares key highlights from his Monthly Chart Book, which details some of the most important macro and economic drivers impacting markets today.

Is the Phillips Curve Dead or is It Just Hibernating? Listen to Peter Hooper, Global Head of Economic Research, reviewing his paper presented at the 2019 US Monetary Policy Forum. The paper addresses the Phillips curve in the US, which predicts that when unemployment drops inflation will rise due to competition for labour and higher wages.

Jim Reid, Head of Thematic and Fundamental Credit Research and Kinner Lakhani, Head of EMEA Equity Research and Head of the European Bank Research analyses the weaknesses of Europe’s banking sector and suggests possible remedies.

Starting this month Torsten Slok, Chief International Economist, will share key highlights from his Monthly Chart Book, which details some of the most important macro and economic drivers impacting markets today.

Kevin Körner, Senior Economist, discusses how the outcome of the EU elections and the composition of the new Parliament will significantly influence the nomination and election of the next President of the European Commission (EC). The election of the Commission President will be particularly challenging this year for three reasons.

So how will we consume music in the years to come? How will streaming develop across the world? And what will happen to the major music labels? Listen to Laurie Davison, European Media & Online Analyst, Han Joon Kim, APAC Internet Analyst and Lloyd Walmsley, US Internet Analyst discussing the next evolution of streaming.

Peter Hooper, Global Head of Economic Research, analyses the three biggest risks on the minds of both policy makers and investors: escalating trade conflict, Brexit and a China slowdown.

Jim Reid, Global Head of Fundamental Credit Strategy and Thematic Research, explores how unique events, waves of populism and social unrest have often occurred through history. As far back as the French Revolution, such episodes were regularly associated with economic crisis, concerns over national identity, and fundamental dissatisfaction at the governing class.

Zhiwei Zhang, Chief Economist & Head of Equity Strategy, China discusses trade talks between the US and China, meanwhile China has begun to invest considerable resources into its relationship with Europe, Japan, and other countries.

Andy Moniz, Chief Data Scientist, dbDIG discusses how artificial intelligence has now grown to the point that it can forecast some market effects of political events. Deutsche Bank’s Alpha-DIG platform uses machine learning to identify the extent of various political risks and then quantify their intensity.

Kevin Koerner, Senior Economist explores how Germany’s post-millennials will struggle to remember a time before Angela Merkel was Chancellor. Following her announcement she will not contest the next election, we examine what Merkel’s period in office has meant for Germany and the implications moving forward.

Peter Hooper, Global Head of Economic Research interviews Frank Kelly, Managing Director and Head of Governement & Public Affairs Americas to assess the implications with the US facing a period of divided government following the mid-term elections.

Peter Garber, Senior Advisor to Deutsche Bank Research, discusses how ever since the advent of steam power, grand infrastructure projects have dramatically reduced the cost of transportation, fostering the internal development of many countries.