- Investment View
- 30/04/2020
Highlights:
- As new Covid-19 cases flatten out, governments prepare for the exit from lockdowns. This will ease economic pain. But it is a fragile enterprise, given the risk of resurging infections.
- The global economy is headed for its worst slump since WWII, with the recovery set to be protracted and disinflationary pressures likely to grow.
- Bold and timely responses by fiscal and monetary policy help to cushion the fallout, supporting risk sentiment and Credit markets in particular.
- European leaders seem set to agree only on a soft form of intra-European burden sharing. EMU sovereign risk will remain largely in the hands of the ECB, which seems determined to deliver.