Panel of investment experts on how investors should expect markets to perform in 2018
claer barrett
30.12.2017
How should investors expect markets to perform in the coming year? The broad consensus of the Financial Times' panel of investment experts can be summed up in one nifty acronym: Mots — or "more of the same".
The past 12 months have seen stock markets around the world touch new highs, even as central banks began unwinding their great monetary policy experiment. Interest rates have been raised three times in the US, and once in the UK, and inflation is back — just as the FT's panel predicted a year ago.