How will the Year of the Monkey swing for global investors?

Allianz GI's strategist shares his view

Neil Dwane (pictured), global strategist at Allianz Global Investors, discusses the outlook for 2016 given the drops in global stockmarkets in the first weeks of the year.

In the first full week back at work after New Year in the West, the Chinese A share market was twice suspended using new "circuit breakers", which have now been withdrawn. Why, approaching the Chinese New Year in early February, is there such nervousness both within and without China? And what does the Year of the Monkey hold in store for global investors? Worries from within It has been clear for some time that the Chinese economy has been slowing both as global growth slows and as the strength of the renminbi impairs export growth. China, and the USA, have allowed others, espec...