8 December 2025
From quality to concentration: How indices get polluted – Download Chart of the week
The Market Place – Download Market Data
- Markets are increasingly pricing in dovish moves by the central bank, boosting safe-haven assets while equity risk appetite appears more muted.
- With economic growth weak and inflation sticky, financial markets may remain sensitive to policy signals – while the push for renewed trade with China suggests some potential upside for export-driven sectors.
- The EU is shifting toward strategic economic autonomy, diversifying supply chains, strengthening industrial protection, and deploying economic-security tools, signalling a move away from free-trade orthodoxy and creating long-term investment opportunities.
- Global uncertainty is intensifying, with China’s slowdown, rising trade frictions, stalled Ukraine peace efforts and risk-off markets all signalling a shift toward greater geopolitical tension and stronger demand for safe-haven assets.
