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26th March 2018

Investec Wealth & Investment: Trade Wars: Weekly Digest

Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy.

In this week's Weekly Digest our Head of Investment Strategy, John Wyn-Evans, looks at the threat from protecionism. Here's a little excerpt from this week's issue...

"Why are trade wars back on the political agenda? Once again it is the rise of populist forces that are the prime motivation. As we have discussed in the past, not least when considering the outcomes of elections and referendums, there is a substantial minority of the electorate – certainly big enough to constitute a meaningful swing vote – that feels it has not benefitted from the relentless march of globalisation over the last few decades”.

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