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Elena Rossi

金融政策エディター

Elena Rossi monitors central bank communications and global interest rate cycles. Her work deciphers the impact of monetary tightening and easing on international markets.

elena.rossi@ecobserver.org

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Trade & Data

The Macro Implications of Financial Data Analysis: When Risk Pricing Is Industrialized

Financial data analytics is not merely a back-office efficiency tool. When the four types of analytics—descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive—are successively embedded into credit granting, pricing, and asset allocation decisions, the financial system’s information-processing costs are systematically driven down, and what changes along with them are the boundaries of credit expansion, market microstructure, institutional concentration, and the hidden variables of financial stability.

Elena Rossi6 min read
Macro Economy

2026 Global Economic Outlook: Policy Reset, Trade Restructuring, and the Shift in Long-term Growth Models

In 2026, the global economy will enter a new phase of a cycle deeply influenced by policy. Trade barriers are shifting toward higher-cost agreements, regional cooperation outside the U.S. is deepening, and competition in AI investment is intensifying, while the diverging paths of countries such as Argentina and Canada provide a window into understanding how different economies adapt to the new geopolitical landscape.

Elena Rossi6 min read
Macro Economy

Global macroeconomic rebalancing: Geopolitical shocks, inflation stickiness, and central bank policy divergence

In mid-2026, global economic growth is struggling to advance amid geopolitical and energy price shocks. The European Central Bank unexpectedly raised interest rates, while Brazil and Russia took the lead in cutting rates, making policy divergence a new global macro theme. This article, based on McKinsey's latest global economic intelligence, analyzes the new global landscape of inflation, growth, and consumption.

Elena Rossi6 min read
Macro Economy

2026 Global Economic Outlook: Between Resilience, Uncertainty, and Structural Reshaping

This article is based on Deloitte Insights' global economic outlook for 2026. From a global macroeconomic perspective, it provides an in-depth analysis of key issues such as economic growth, inflation trends, central bank policies, geoeconomic divergence, and long-term structural changes over the coming year, offering decision-makers a forward-looking framework for thinking.

Elena Rossi8 min read
Monetary Policy

Federal Reserve Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged: Global Monetary Policy Enters a Period of 'Hovering at High Levels'

The Federal Reserve kept its interest rate range at 3.50%-3.75% unchanged at its July 2026 meeting, with three committee members dissenting. This article analyzes the economic logic behind this decision from a global macroeconomic perspective, exploring the impact of sustained high interest rates on inflation, capital flows, and long-term economic cycles.

Elena Rossi5 min read
Markets Insight

AI investment and global tensions reshape the insurance market outlook.

Global Macroeconomic Analyst Perspective: AI investment as a new growth engine, combined with geopolitical risks, is redefining the risk pricing and capital allocation logic of the insurance market, signaling a turning point in the long-term economic cycle.

Elena Rossi3 min read
Regional Economy

Vietnam's 2026 Double-Digit Growth Target: A Structural Breakthrough Path Under Global Headwinds

Against the backdrop of a highly uncertain global economy, Vietnam laid the foundation for its double-digit growth target with an 8.18% growth rate in the first half of 2026. This article analyzes the challenges Vietnam faces in terms of inflation, trade, and capital flows from an international macro perspective, and provides an in-depth interpretation of the economic logic and long-term cyclical significance behind seven major coping strategies.

Elena Rossi4 min read
Markets Insight

Q3 Kickoff: Oil Price Shock Fades, AI Boom Reshapes Asian Market Landscape

On the first trading day of the third quarter of 2026, global investors repositioned amid easing oil price volatility, AI-driven stock market highs, a pressured yen, and cooling European inflation. This article analyzes the underlying market logic from the perspectives of macroeconomic cycles and monetary policy divergence.

Elena Rossi3 min read
Regional Economy

Bangladesh's industrial growth hits decade low: A microcosm of structural difficulties in emerging markets

Bangladesh's industrial growth rate in fiscal year 2025-26 is only 2.86%, the lowest in a decade. The combination of high inflation, energy shortages, financing constraints, and weak external demand poses a severe challenge to the government's 7% growth target. This article analyzes the structural contradictions behind this phenomenon from a global macro perspective.

Elena Rossi3 min read
Macro Economy

The Dual Rifts of China's Economy: Shrinking Domestic Demand and AI-Driven Export Boom

In May 2026, China's retail sales fell for the first time in three years, while industrial output grew against the trend, supported by AI and exports, highlighting a structural imbalance between weak domestic demand and strong external demand. Real estate investment continued to decline, and expectations of policy intervention are rising.

Elena Rossi4 min read