Thematic / Megatrends

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Gold Market Primer: Market size and structure
  • 17 hours ago

The gold market is notable for both its long history and its significant scale. Gold’s role as a consumer good and an investment asset is shaped by its scarcity, the durability of its above-ground...

Central banks hold rates steady as inflation, AI investment and growth risks reshape markets
  • 17 hours ago

Assess how central banks balance resilient growth, persistent inflation and energy risks while AI investment supports demand, influences policy expectations and reshapes global markets across regions.

Ramp Co-Founder and Co-CEO Eric Glyman on AI Adoption, Jobs, and Token Spend
  • 17 hours ago

Ramp co-founder and co-CEO Eric Glyman joins Inside Blackstone to share what spending data from tens of thousands of companies reveals about AI adoption, jobs, and token spend.

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – Tech it to the limit
  • 17 hours ago

The AI financing wave is weighing on the weakest credits within high yield. The key question is, will the stress be contained at the bottom of the spectrum?

Emerging Markets Insights: Big Tech AI Spending
  • 17 hours ago

In this month’s issue, AI-driven investment and strong earnings growth continue to support emerging markets, though selectivity remains essential as higher interest rates create winners and losers.

Capital Market Assumptions - October 2026
  • 17 hours ago

Ninety One’s Capital Market Assumptions framework focuses on the key drivers of long-term performance. We do this to better understand possible future returns, enriching discussions with our clients.

Energy Transition in US Elections; Shifting Private Markets Environment; and AI Anxiety or Opportunity
  • 17 hours ago

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 — Read today's Daily Update about how the US elections are shaping energy transition policies, the evolving landscape of private markets amid global uncertainty, and wheth...

Carbon removals coming of age: BECCS and the future of carbon markets
  • 17 hours ago

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage has long been one of the most promising and contested technologies in the rapidly expanding world of carbon removal. It is now starting to move from theory...

Defiant consumers?
  • 02 Nov 2026

Friday's market moves are attention grabbing, but economically more muted. The crypto gyrations are speculation, with little real world relevance (beyond the alleged boost to North Korea's GDP). Th...