The Month Ahead

June will be shaped by a convergence of political, economic and financial developments that will determine the trajectory of the global economy in the second half of the year.

Are the world’s leading economies converging on a common strategy to manage slowing growth and persistent inflationary pressures, or are policy divergences increasing the risk of economic and strategic instability?

It will bring together an unusual concentration of decisions by the world’s most influential economic and political actors – at the G7 in France, the ECB monetary policy meeting, and gatherings at the Bank of Japan and the U.S. Federal Reserve.