Our latest Economic Outlook offers a review of 2025’s key surprises alongside the major trends and risks set to shape markets in the year ahead.

In this week's chart Jonathan plots the relative six month return of the MSCI World Quality Net Total Return USD Index versus the MSCI World Index, highlighting key macroeconomic events across the period.

In this week's chart Tom illustrates the more-than-40-year secular decline in global corporate tax rates.

In this week's Chart of the Week, Alex highlights the five-year Credit Default Swap (CDS) spread for Oracle Corp versus the equivalent cost of insurance for an equally weighted basket of the 125 most liquid US investment grade issuers, the 5yr CDX IG index.

In this week's Chart of the Week, Isaac compares the weightings of the ‘Magnificent 7’ stocks and the G7 ex US countries in the MSCI World Index. The Magnificent 7 has surged in recent years, reaching regular new highs.