# Diverging Paths, Converging Risks

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Podcast: [Macro Pulse](https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-pulse-6609925)
Published: 2025-12-04T12:37:23+00:00
Episode link: https://haveranalytics.podbean.com/e/diverging-paths-converging-risks/
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Global financial markets have been navigating a more unsettled backdrop in recent weeks, with choppier risk sentiment and shifting rate expectations reshaping the macro narrative. US assets have been particularly sensitive to signs of cooling labour-market momentum, while rising real yields in Japan and renewed fiscal tightening in the UK have added further cross-currents. In our charts this week we home in on: The global policy rate consensus The US labour market Euro area inflation Real rates in Japan UK government debt South Korea's semiconductor trade

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