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Macroeconomic conditions continue to be challenging for global markets. Supply chain issues, pandemic regulations, and geopolitical conflict impact markets and create structural risks that carry across borders

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Global Economic Outlook Q1 2025: Buckle Up

The global macroeconomic outlook is hostage to the policy implementation of the new U.S. administration. The recent macro pattern featuring an outperforming U.S. economy continues. But potentially large changes in fiscal, trade, and immigration policy from the U.S. are significant unknowns at this juncture.

Economic Indicators & Forecasts

Our comprehensive economics and country risk solutions enable customers to identify and optimize global insights, mitigate risks, and solve problems across the globe.

Global Economic Forecasting and Analysis

The complete economic data universe. Comprehensive and reliable data helps you carry out forecasting, scenario analysis, stress testing, identify growth opportunities, measure industry performance, quantify market risk, and everything in between.

Economy Podcasts

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Leaders

Listen to long-form conversations with senior investors, CEOs, and entrepreneurs on topics that matter most to the investment community. In each episode, Joe Cass, Senior Director at S&P Global Ratings, explores market trends, investment outlooks, and personal stories from industry trailblazers.

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EMEA

EMEA

Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, continue to be affected by geopolitical conflict and changing trade flows. Rising interest rates, energy and food prices, and fear of recession will define the immediate future for these economies.

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Economic Outlook Eurozone Q1 2025: Next Year Will Be A Game Changer

S&P Global Ratings expects eurozone GDP growth will reach 0.8% in 2024 and 1.2% in 2025. The S&P Global Ratings base-case scenario has changed little--and mainly due to revisions to past GDP data--since previous publication as there are only a few indicators to draw on.

War in Ukraine

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, S&P Global Commodity Insights reviews the impacts on commodity and energy markets in the region and the world at large.

S&P Global EU Taxonomy Data

The S&P Global EU Taxonomy Data dataset helps companies and investors navigate the transition to a low-carbon, resilient, and resource-efficient economy. It provides a classification framework that sets out the criteria for an activity to be considered environmentally sustainable.
Americas

Americas

The fight to control inflation and shifting trade flows will create challenges for economies in North and South America.

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Economic Outlook U.S. Q1 2025: Steady Growth, Significant Policy Uncertainty

Heading into 2025, the U.S. economy is expanding at a solid pace. While President-elect Donald Trump outlined numerous policy proposals during his campaign, S&P Global Ratings' economic outlook for 2025 hasn't changed appreciably.

US Elections

Follow our coverage to learn how 2024 elections and policy moves in the United States impact oil, agriculture, renewables, LNG and more.

Defense and National Security

Data, analysis, and expertise to empower you with critical security intelligence.
S&P Global Research Council

Look Forward

Look beyond the near term and explore the trends that will shape our future with critical work focused on sustainability and climate, trade and supply chains, global realignment, the future of capital markets, technology and digital disruption and the multidimensional energy transition.

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APAC

APAC

The anticipated end to pandemic restrictions will drive economic growth in the immediate future. But demographic changes and changing trade flows could signal trouble on the horizon.

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Economic Outlook Asia-Pacific Q1 2025: U.S. Trade Shift Blurs The Horizon

The impending change in the U.S. administration will be challenging for China and the rest of Asia-Pacific. U.S. tariff increases have become more likely, especially on China, and possible changes in the U.S. macro picture are leading to different interest rate expectations.

Asia-Pacific: Key themes to watch in 2025

Here is how we see our key themes for 2025 shaping the Asia-Pacific region's operational and investment environment.

SCRIPTS Asia Transcripts

The SCRIPTS Asia package provides coverage of non-English events in Japan such as earnings releases, shareholder meetings, investor days, and other corporate events. These events are typically hosted in local languages and available on an invite-only basis to investors and corporate partners.

S&P Global Ratings

Economic Research

Our economists are responsible for developing the macroeconomic forecasts and risk scenarios used by S&P Global Ratings' analysts during the ratings process, as well as leading key cross-sector and cross-divisional research projects.
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Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets

Emerging market economies are set to experience continued challenges as geopolitical risks flare, inflation increases, interest rates rise, and financing conditions tighten.

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Credit Research & Insights: Emerging Markets

Emerging markets encompass regions with significantly diverging fundamentals and a broad range of credit challenges—from persistent inflation and tightening financing conditions to sluggish domestic demand and geopolitical tensions.

Look Forward: Emerging Markets — A Decisive Decade

Emerging markets are strategically positioned to drive global economic growth through the expansion of their domestic markets and to benefit from the reconfiguration of supply chains, trade and investment.

Country Risk

The Country Risk dataset, originated from IHS Markit, offers extensive historic and forecast data providing clients with a 360-degree perspective on Country Risks, ESG, Banking Sector Risk and News events related to political violence and political risk incidents.