The Global Food Crisis
Instead of a post-pandemic recovery phase, global economies are now experiencing further downward revisions to growth prospects due to a complex combination of new challenges. The United Nations food agencies…
News and Notices
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Commentary
Opinion pieces prepared by our Analysts on pertinent topics within the Caribbean and selected emerging markets and advanced economies
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Topics
Growth or Value Investing
In the midst of the current economic environment of rising inflation and economic slowdown, exists a recurring debate among investors of which is better – growth or value investing? Many…
Inflation Targeting
Inflation is generally defined as a rise in the general level of prices over a given period of time and is often compared to standardised timeframes such as month-on-month, quarter-on-quarter…
Bear Markets
The terms bear and bull markets refer to trends in stock markets and can be used to describe the share price pattern in an overall market or index. Individual securities…
Join the First Citizens Community
First Citizens recently launched the next chapter in its sustainability programme – First Citizens Community, signalling a further step towards grounding its environmental, social and governance agenda and creating a…
The Costs and Benefits of Dollarization
Currency substitution, also known as dollarization, refers to a country’s use of a foreign currency in parallel to or in place of its own domestic currency. While currency substitution can…
Federal Reserve Balance Sheet and Quantitative Tightening
The US Federal Reserve (FED) in its May 2022 meeting raised interest rates by 0.50% (50 bps), the single largest hike since 2000, bringing the rate to a target range…
