{"id":539,"date":"2023-04-17T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcfx.sofyma.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:31:07","slug":"survey-sees-rise-in-cfo-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/survey-sees-rise-in-cfo-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Sees Rise in CFO Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Furthermore, the survey indicates that \u2018perceptions of uncertainty\u2019 have declined at the greatest rate in the 12 years history of the survey. Chief drivers of the rise in optimism was easing supply chain problems, easing recruitment problems and easing expectations of where inflation would be in a year\u2019s time. The survey also suggested that concerns around Brexit related challenged had been alleviated by the Windsor framework resulting in CFO\u2019s concerns around Brexit being at their lowest level in six years. Deloitte\u2019s CFO, Ian Stewart also stated that \u201cfinance leaders report little change in credit conditions, suggesting that March\u2019s events in the global banking system have not affected the pricing and availability of credit for UK corporates.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Nevertheless, Notwithstanding the rise in optimism, CFO\u2019s remain cognisant of the wider challenges that persist in the economy, and thus \u2018maintain a defensive strategy stance\u2019. This primarily involves a drive to reduce costs and build up cash.
\nThe survey also highlighted how CFO\u2019s are looking towards artificial intelligence to help increase productivity, and are expecting to see significant growth in the sector. This follows an article last month published by Goldman Sachs which suggested that AI could release the equivalent of 300,000,000 full time jobs globally. This, it said, could cause significant disruption to the labour market as two-thirds of jobs in the US and Europe are exposed to some level of automation.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Bid on Asian Equities as Markets Await Chinese GDP<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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This morning has seen the Shanghai Composite rise 0.8% to its highest level in nine-months as the Shenzhen index also rose 0.3%. This comes as investors weigh on China\u2019s GDP print, released tomorrow where the general market consensus is expecting to see a print of 4% for Q1. This would mark a sizable increase from Q4 which saw a release of 2.9%.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s release follows the CCP announcing their lowest growth target in decades. The 5% target for 2023 comes after a difficult year for China as far as growth is concerned with Beijing recording that the Chinese economy expanded just 3% over 2022. The Chinese Premier Li Keqiang citied a host of domestic and international reasons why growth will likely continue to be under pressure this year, not least China\u2019s fragile property sector and fragile relations with Washington.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Looking ahead: <\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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Lagarde:<\/strong> Today markets will chiefly be focusing on President Lagarde who is speaking at 18:00 this evening. Markets will be looking to gain any insight into her plans on the forthcoming ECB rate decision on 4th May following her weekend comments which stated that central bank policy makers and politicians have a \u2018narrow path\u2019 to tread between inflation, growth, and stability in the banking sector.<\/p>\n

UK Labour Market:<\/strong> Tomorrow will also see the release of the UK\u2019s unemployment rate which is expected to remain unchanged at 3.7%. The UK labour market continues to be tight with historically low levels of unemployment and high job vacancies and markets will be hotly anticipating the print in order to gain an insight into the health of the UK labour market in the run up to the BoE\u2019s rate decision on 11th May.<\/p>\n

UK Inflation:<\/strong> On Wednesday, Markets will be looking towards UK CPI which is expected to slip 0.4 percentage points to 10%. Last month, the UK\u2019s inflation print indicated that headline CPI unexpectedly rose from 10.1% in January to 10.4% in February against market forecasts that UK inflation would fall from double digits for the first time since August. The 0.3 percentage point increase from January bucked the trend of a falling rate of inflation seen each month since November and reiterated the challenge that the BoE faces in bringing inflation back to their 2% target rate.<\/p>\n

BoE Rate Decision:<\/strong> As we await the UK\u2019s CPI Print and labour market data in the run up to Threadneedle Street\u2019s decision on 11th May, according to a Bloomberg news survey more than half of economists now think the BoE will not from raise its key rate again.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, the release of Deloitte\u2019s quarterly CFO Survey suggests that business sentiment has improved significantly.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"rp-language":[16],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-updates","rp-language-en_gb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"rp-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rp-language?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}