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Paul Hodges
The New Normal for global industry
31st May 2020 by

The global chemical industry is the third largest sector in the world behind agriculture and energy,...

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Hertz goes bankrupt as non-essential consumer demand disappears
24th May 2020 by

The US Federal Reserve has now spent $7tn bailing out Wall Street. But it couldn’t save the 10...

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Debt, deflation, demographics and Brexit set to challenge London house prices
17th May 2020 by

London property websites haven’t used the word “reduced” for many years. But it...

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Smartphone sales head into decline as affordability becomes key
10th May 2020 by

The smartphone sales decline accelerated in Q1, as Strategy Analytics report: “Global smartpho...

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The bill for two decades of doomed stimulus measures is due
3rd May 2020 by

The Financial Times kindly made my letter on the risks now associated with central bank stimulus the...

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Local supply chains replace global trade as world starts to “do more with less”
26th April 2020 by

Something quite dramatic is happening in the global economy.  Of course, Wall Street analysts still...

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Financial markets enter their Convulsion phase
19th April 2020 by

Many companies and investors are still comparing today’s downturn to the 9-month hiccups seen afte...

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World risks moving from Denial into Anger as the Paradigm of Loss moves forward
12th April 2020 by

The head of the IMF has warned again on the likely scale of the economic depression ahead: “Gl...

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The world has wasted 3 months – there is little time now left to avoid a Covid-19 catastrophe
5th April 2020 by

It is now 3 months since China’s state television broadcast the first news of the Wuhan virus,...

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China’s property sector is at the epicentre of the crisis
29th March 2020 by

A branch of Centaline Property Agency in Hong Kong © Bloomberg Indebted Chinese property developers...

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