Off the Wires
Looking back at Off the Wires in Q1
Off the wires: Google launches Bard chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT
In late November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT – an AI driven chatbot that can answer complex questions and handle almost any topic. A couple of...
Off the wires: Money market funds swell by more than $286bn amid deposit flight
The collapse of several US regional banks and the UBS-Credit Suisse merger in March spurred investors to look for alternative homes for their money....
Off the wires: Tesla stock gathers steam as reports show EV giant hits brakes on China plant production
As Tesla halted the production line at its Shanghai plant, Steve Xinlei Shen uses EPFR’s Stock Flows dataset to assess to assess investor...
Off the wires: Nike, Adidas shoe supplier to cut up to 3,000 jobs in Vietnam this month
Azalea Micottis expands on a recent Nikkei Asia article to deep dive into the latest Vietnam’s equity fund trends using EPFR Fund Flows and...
Off the wires: US-China trade hits record high despite rising tensions
Olivia Blaszkowski from EPFR takes a recent BBC article to look into US investor sentiment towards China. Fund flows show that the tide is...
Off the wires: Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America
Post pandemic, the US and Europe have seen prices soar and policymakers have been scrambling to slow the pace of inflation. Europe and the US took...
Off the wires: Frontier and emerging markets: Inflection points
The blog referenced in this piece emphasizes the importance of using historical relative performance of equity markets for developing robust...
Off the wires: India raises $1bn from maiden green bond sale
India sold its first sovereign “green” bonds on Wednesday, a debut that was well-received by the market. In this short Off the Wire piece, we will...
Off the wires: Will Turkey remain as the top-performing market in 2023?
Turkish equity markets were among the few in 2022 that managed to shrug off the angst fueled by rising inflation and tightening monetary policy,...
Off the wires: Japan government bonds: Is there a coming outflow?
Is there a coming outflow in Japan’s long-dated government bonds? Where might this money be reallocated to? Who is the investor? EPFR Quant...
Off the wires: Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
High energy prices have been a norm for 2022 with consistent pressure from the Russia-Ukraine conflict as it leans into the 300th day mark, while...