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    Coface Risk Review - June 2025: The great leap backwards

    In a context of unprecedented geopolitical and trade uncertainty, the global economy is navigating between an expected slowdown and escalation risks. Trump's tariff decisions and tensions in the Middle East are reshaping an unpredictable economic landscape for 2025-2026. In this environment, and in view of the measures already in place, Coface has downgraded 23 sectors and 4 countries.

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    Are the tariffs hitting? Insights from sentiment data

    If you feel like you are receiving mixed market signals, left and right, you aren’t alone. It would make the economic forecaster’s life so much easier to take the soft data’s word at face value and conclude that it’s all a matter of time before tariffs start bringing down core GDP. But is it really that simple?

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    Emerging economies: Countries we have our eye on for 2025

    While the global economy is reshaping and advanced countries are slowing down, hopes for global economic rebounding rely on emerging ones. If China, the largest emerging economy, is stuck in a structural slowdown, which countries can take over and offer the most opportunities to companies this year?

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    Fragmented globalization: From geopolitical fracturing to economic and financial fragmentation

    Geostrategic tensions are impacting the global economy, calling into question three decades of commercial and financial integration. Faced with a possible regionalization of trade and a reorientation of flows, experts in finance, industry and logistics shared their analyses of this major economic transformation during our Country Risk Conference in Paris, France on Feb. 4, 2025.

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    Will all of the advanced economies stay ahead?

    Demographic ageing, slowing productivity gains, energy transition, technological competition: advanced economies are facing numerous complex challenges. In response, industrial policies are back in the spotlight, fostering competition. With the risk that desynchronized initiatives could trigger a race to outdo one another, leaving winners and losers.

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