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Today’s Nine Important Market Trends
Louis-Vincent Gave
16 Feb 2026
Investor Paul Tudor Jones once quipped that markets trend only 15% of the time and that most of the time they trade sideways. This is an important reminder that what may look like a trend may in fact be little more than confirmation bias, says Louis. Still, with that caveat in mind, in this piece he reviews the market’s recent moves and assesses whether they represent durable trends, or merely short-term readjustments within a broader sideways range.
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Why Markets Yawn As Britain Moves Left
Anatole Kaletsky
16 Feb 2026
Last Monday’s Jeffrey-Epstein-related political crisis in Britain came within an hour of forcing the resignation of Keir Starmer. Yet investors responded to these political shenanigans with a yawn. And they were right to do so, despite the fact that a big shift to the left in Britain’s political complexion is now inevitable.
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The Fed’s Balance Sheet And The Treasury’s Gold
Will Denyer
13 Feb 2026
Kevin Warsh has repeatedly argued that the Federal Reserve’s assets should be “reduced in size and scope” to limit its influence on capital allocation, wealth distribution and fiscal policy. The question, Will asks, is how this might be done without the Fed sparking a liquidity crisis. In this piece, he considers four potential approaches which are likely under consideration at this very moment.
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Eating The Children
Louis-Vincent Gave
13 Feb 2026
Spare a thought for the “new economy” investors who diversified their software holdings with bitcoin. It would be an epic understatement to say that crypto and software stocks have been struggling over the past six months. Fear of AI as a disruptor is now affecting companies whose business model is tied to the sharing of knowledge.
Gavekal Dragonomics
How China Responds To The Gold Price
Xiaoxi Zhang
The Downtrend In Auto Demand
Ernan Cui
Consequences Of The Land-Sales Slide
Xiaoxi Zhang
Macro Update: Preparing For Normalization
Wei He, Dragonomics Team
Which Investment Data To Believe?
Andrew Batson
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Webinar: India Shuffles The Deck
Udith Sikand, Tom Miller
How To Contain China In EVs
Cedric Gemehl
Video: Is The Debasement Trade Dead?
Will Denyer
From Schumpeterian To Ricardian Bull Markets
Charles Gave
US Exceptionalism Versus Chinese Uninvestibility (Part II)
Louis-Vincent Gave
Gavekal Technologies
Engineering An AI Nation
Laila Khawaja
Beijing’s ‘New Energy System’
Arthur Kroeber, Laila Khawaja, Huang Shichan
The US-China Space Race Intensifies
Laila Khawaja
China’s Vision For AI-Powered Manufacturing
Laila Khawaja
The Lidar Revolution
Tom Hancock, Huang Shichan, Laila Khawaja
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Time To Take Profits On Metals?
Didier Darcet
The Big Long 2.0
Didier Darcet
Measuring Imitation
Didier Darcet
The Manager’s Unspoken Truth
Didier Darcet
Gold And War
Didier Darcet
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Geoeconomic Monitor: Who’s The Real Winner?
Tom Holland, Tom Miller
6 Feb 2026
Donald Trump says India has agreed to stop buying Russian oil and funding Vladimir Putin’s war machine. And in Panama the annulment of CK Hutchison’s ports contract means Trump can finally claim to have “taken back” the canal. The reality in both is less black-and-white.
Checking The Boxes
Our short take on the latest news
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Takeaway
US CPI rose 2.4% YoY in Jan, versus 2.7% in Dec; core CPI rose 2.5% YoY in Jan, versus 2.6%
Headline CPI inflation slower than the expected 2.5%; core CPI as expected
CPI runs about 40bp faster than the Fed's favored PCE index, so inflation is roughly on target
Eurozone employment grew 0.2% QoQ in 4Q25, the same as in 3Q
Stronger than expected 0.1%; YoY, employment grew 0.7% in 4Q25, versus 0.6% in 3Q
Employment growth should pick up alongside nominal growth
Japanese GDP grew 0.1% in Q425, versus -0.7% in Q3
Slower than the expected 0.4%
Fiscal expansion should support Japanese growth, the yen and Japanese equities
Swiss CPI rose 0.1% YoY in Jan, the same pace as in Dec
As expected; core CPI rose 0.5% YoY in Jan, the same as in Dec
CHF strength suppressing price rises; however, with inflation positive, negative rates unlikely
Test Your Knowledge
In 2023, more than 4mn industrial robots were hard at work in the world’s factories. Relative to the number of its manufacturing workers, which country had the most industrial robots?
- China
- Japan
- The United States
- Germany
- Singapore
- South Korea
Chart of the Week
China’s anti-corruption campaign has netted its biggest catch in years: Zhang Youxia, deputy chairman of the Central Military Commission. But Zhang is hardly alone: anti-corruption investigators launched more than one million probes last year, and disciplined nearly as many officials. This year the anti-corruption watchdog has vowed to focus on enforcing the upcoming five-year plan, which in practice means the anti-corruption drive will probably function as another tool for top leader Xi Jinping to constrain the power of local-government officials and centralize authority in Beijing.
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Essential Reading: A Book For Every Week Of The Year
Gavekal is often asked for a recommended reading list. So, here it is: a book a week that everyone interested in the world of macro investing—whether hoary veteran or eager apprentice—can benefit from reading.
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Webinar: India Shuffles The Deck
Udith Sikand, Tom Miller
13 Feb 2026
India’s economy looks in decent shape, with growth accelerating past 7% and signs of private investment picking up. Now that a trade deal has finally been agreed with the United States, external risks have also diminished. But there is still plenty of uncertainty both over the details of the trade deal and over India’s geostrategic position, as it cuts Russian oil imports, diversifies trade away from the US and reengages with China. Udith Sikand and Tom Miller assess the recent flurry of news from India and what it means for investors.
Tariff Troubles
The EM Triple Whammy On Full Display
It would be tempting to ascribe the simultaneous US dollar, bond, and equity market sell-off to the self-owned “crisis” around Greenland and to Trump’s threat to use tariffs against (former?) friends to force a change of sovereignty. Still, the current sell-off in bonds, and equities, may also be driven by other important factors, says Louis.
How Europe Will Respond To Trump’s Greenland Tariffs
On Saturday, US president Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on eight European countries over their opposition to his plans to annex Greenland. Since then, attention has shifted to how Europe might respond. Cedric argues that conciliation and deescalation remains Europe’s first response to Trump’s new tariff threat, but there is now a greater chance that the EU retaliates in earnest if that strategy fails.
Video: Supreme Court v. Trump’s Trade Policy
Initial questioning by US Supreme Court justices in a landmark trade policy case suggests that a majority believe the Trump administration unlawfully invoked emergency powers to impose broad tariffs on importers. In this interview, Will outlines the key issues at stake and considers Trump’s possible next steps if the government loses.
Geoeconomic Monitor: Understanding The New Trade Regime
In today’s Monitor, we continue our analysis of what Donald Trump’s new trade regime means for the world economy, explain how Indian prime minister Narendra Modi blundered and wound up facing a 50% tariff, and argue that none of the conditions for a quick end to the Russia-Ukraine war are in place.
US economy & markets
The Fed’s Balance Sheet And The Treasury’s Gold
Kevin Warsh has repeatedly argued that the Federal Reserve’s assets should be “reduced in size and scope” to limit its influence on capital allocation, wealth distribution and fiscal policy. The question, Will asks, is how this might be done without the Fed sparking a liquidity crisis. In this piece, he considers four potential approaches which are likely under consideration at this very moment.
Market Got Warsh-ed
Notwithstanding the ongoing stabilization in markets, two asset groupings saw sharp falls over the past week, testing positioning and risk tolerance, while more defensively positioned and cyclically supported sectors proved relatively resilient. This divergence, better viewed as a rotation than a broad risk-off event, is instructive. Understanding the drivers of this price action should help clarify what comes next in this phase of the market cycle.
The Odd One Out
Despite recent ructions in overbought markets, 2026 has seen bets on an “inflationary boom” continue to play out, with energy, materials and industrials doing well. The odd one out in this scenario has been US financials, despite a macro backdrop that should have favored them. For investors, the key question is whether US banks will benefit in the usual way from a steepening yield curve, or instead become conduits for populist policy risk in an election year.
A Hawkish Fed Choice
Investors have reacted decisively to Kevin Warsh’s nomination to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, with a series of crowded trades being unwound. Assuming Senate confirmation, Will explains what his appointment would mean for the future of US monetary policy, US central bank independence, the US dollar, gold and other assets.
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Macro Update: Preparing For Normalization
Wei He, Dragonomics Team
4 Feb 2026
China’s policymakers are satisfied with economic performance in 2025, and appear confident that 2026 will be a more ordinary year that allows for a more normal policy stance. But domestic demand remains lackluster, and it’s unclear whether recent positive momentum in some areas can be sustained. In their latest quarterly chartbook, Wei and the Dragonomics team take stock of China’s economic performance and the outlook for the year ahead.
India chartbook
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India Macro Update: Downside Risks Abound
Udith Sikand, Tom Miller
23 Sep 2025
India’s domestic economic recovery is at risk as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government faces a lose-lose choice: continue to import cheap oil from its long-time ally Russia or face punitive tariffs in its biggest export market. Last week’s US interest rate cut will give the central bank more room to cut rates, but the underperformance of Indian asset prices looks set to continue.
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Video: Is The Debasement Trade Dead?
Will Denyer
12 Feb 2026
The long rallies in gold and crypto from 2023 to 2025 were to a large extent driven by the US debasement trade. With recent market moves suggesting that these trends may now have run their course, Will Denyer digs into the underlying dynamics to examine whether the debasement trade is really over, and if so what this means for broader asset markets.
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Global Strategy: Best And Worst Trades For 2026
Louis-Vincent Gave, Charles Gave, Anatole Kaletsky, Will Denyer, Tan Kai Xian, Cedric Gemehl, August Gudmundsson, Thomas Gatley, Udith Sikand, Tom Miller
8 Jan 2026
Past performance is no guide to future returns, and the trend is not always your friend. As such, Gavekal writers consider their most compelling 10 macro trades for 2026, on both the upside and the downside. If one theme runs through our developed-market views, it is the expectation for a sustained inflationary boom. That story is different in China, but Chinese firms look to be on the right side of an energy transition with room to run. The view on gold is nuanced, especially seen through the lens of Japanese investors facing extreme asset valuations.
Emerging markets
Video: Are EMs Back?
It’s been a good quarter for the broad emerging markets complex. The MSCI EM index has returned almost 7% in US dollar terms, while US equities are down by some -3.5%. So should investors jump on the EM train? Udith points out that there is a wide divergence in the performance of individual emerging markets, and the threat of tariffs hangs heavy over EM corporate earnings. Investors need to be selective.
Video: Southeast Asia Under Trump 2.0
Global investors are rightly focused on the potential losers from the United States pursuing an aggressively protectionist trade policy agenda, but there may be winners as well. Tom went in search of such economies last week. Today he explains how such “swing states” are likely to perform in an intensified period of great power rivalry between the US and China.
China Turbocharges EM Investment
As the rich world pulls up the protectionist drawbridge, investors risk missing a bigger story
in emerging markets. Here, Chinese outbound investment is rebounding after the fallow Covid years, and is driving a new wave of industrialization that promises to lower the cost of the green-energy transition.
Why This Time Has Been Different
During past episodes of risk-off volatility, the correlation between emerging market risk assets has shot up. But early August’s bout of market volatility saw a bifurcation in EMs, and no broader macroeconomic spillover effects—which speaks well of the growing maturity of emerging markets as an asset class.
Europe's economy
Why Markets Yawn As Britain Moves Left
Last Monday’s Jeffrey-Epstein-related political crisis in Britain came within an hour of forcing the resignation of Keir Starmer. Yet investors responded to these political shenanigans with a yawn. And they were right to do so, despite the fact that a big shift to the left in Britain’s political complexion is now inevitable.
How To Contain China In EVs
On Tuesday, a Chinese electric vehicle exporter became the first to secure a tariff exemption from the European Union by agreeing to a minimum import price. In doing so, Brussels effectively replaced duties on Chinese EVs with a price floor, a markedly different trade instrument. Since such arrangements allow Chinese firms to keep revenues that would otherwise accrue to the EU budget, the rationale for the change is not obvious. In this piece, Cedric explains Europe’s approach in a market which is not quite what it seems at first blush.
The Second Wave Of Europe’s Defense Spending
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered panic among European policymakers, who feared a wider European war and were forced to confront decades of underinvestment in defense. In response, European governments scrambled to procure military equipment wherever it could be found. The result was a generational repricing of European defense stocks. The next phase of this rearmament process will see a very different market dynamic that will require investors to take a more discriminating approach, says August.
The Eurozone’s Financial Reflation
Never say never, but the European Central Bank is almost certain to keep its key policy rate unchanged at today’s meeting. The good news for the eurozone is that the end of the rate-cut cycle does not mark the end of a financial reflation that began in 2024, argues Cedric and August.
Currencies
What To Do With US$1trn?
On The False Price Of The Yen
Behind The Dollar’s Decline
A New Reflationary Force?
Don’t Bet On A Forever Weak Yen
How To Think About Renminbi Appreciation
Oil & commodities
Geoeconomic Monitor: Who’s The Real Winner?
Geoeconomic Monitor: A Bad Oil Bet In Venezuela
Geoeconomic Monitor: Working On Credibility
Axis Of Energy
Convictions And Concerns
The Petro-Currency That Wasn’t
