FSG is delighted to announce that we are the recipients of 19 FocusEconomics analyst forecast awards, including at least 1 award from each region. These awards confirm our analysts’ status as top economic forecasters in their fields. While we have…
In April 2016, the IMF’s World Economic Outlook database released their latest data update. In previous posts, we have well documented that FSG’s FrontierData forecasts lead IMF forecasts by 2 – 4 months, meaning that FSG clients gain access to…
A multinational company’s decisions about Egypt today must be grounded in the country’s medium to long-term potential. Multinationals’ optimism and eagerness to re-enter Egypt after mid-2014 have recently been replaced with frustration and disappointment. Egypt as a nation is facing a…
The IMF released their newest edition of its World Economic Outlook, complete with its latest forecasts, in April. Similar to our previous blog post comparing FSG FrontierData forecasts with the IMF’s, FSG’s GDP forecasts lead the IMF’s by four months. The…
During a recent business trip to São Paulo, when I asked a client about the deterioration of market sentiment in Brazil, he pulled his iPhone out of his pocket, opened his Facebook page and told me “just read through the…
In its recent Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank downgraded its 2015 global GDP forecast to 3.0 percent (from 3.4 percent in June 2014). However, FSG believes that their global forecast of 3.0 percent is still too optimistic, particularly in some key emerging markets. For example,…
In his speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang emphasized again that the world’s second-largest economy will not suffer a hard landing and that China is ready to endure reduced GDP…