For almost two years, many of the world’s central banks have been hiking rates to fight inflation. And yet, the global economy, especially in the United States, has remained remarkably resilient. Our 2024 outlook examines the balance between the resilience of growth and the stickiness of inflation.
We expect global growth to slow down in the first half. And we believe disinflation will continue to make uneven progress. By the end of 2024, we expect year-over-year US inflation to be appreciably below 3%, with Eurozone and UK inflation coming considerably closer to target rates.
As both growth and inflation soften, we expect central banks to start cutting rates—and that should help power a second-half recovery and renewed strength in risk assets. Learn more about our base case — and alternative scenarios that could occur — in our 2024 annual investment outlook.