Daily Insights

September 30, 2016 

All on board for adding risk in Q4

• In Japan, the first set of post-MPM data were mixed. Industrial production expanded 1.5% m/m in August (July: -0.4%), exceeding forecasts. August unemployment showed a reactionary uptick, but the trend of improvement remained unchanged.

• Meanwhile, Japan CPI ex-perishables fell more than expected in August, supporting our call for a rate cut. While we believe that Japan inflation has troughed, we expect more underlying measures of inflation (core-core, BoJ core) to continue to rise more slowly in the months ahead. We retain our forecast for the BoJ to ease on 1 November.

Working Mother has named Barclays one of its 2016 “100 Best Companies” for the third year in a row, ranking Barclays’ US operations as among the best in offering family friendly benefits and a flexible environment for working mothers.

For the second consecutive year, Barclays has collaborated with the Out Leadership organisation to host one of its flagship events, the OutNEXT: LGBT Emerging Leader Summit.