Saxo Bank's ten Outrageous Predictions for 2019

Events that could send shockwaves across financial markets

Will this be the year when Germany enters recession, Apple 'secures funding' for Tesla, Trump tells Powell "you're fired" and Labour sweeps to a resounding victory and names Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister sending GBP/USD to parity?

Saxo Bank has released its Ten Outrageous Predictions' for 2019. The predictions focus on a series of unlikely but underappreciated events which, if they were to occur, could send shockwaves across financial markets. While these predictions do not constitute Saxo's official market forecasts for 2019, they represent a warning of a potential misallocation of risk among investors who typically see just a one percent likelihood to these events materialising. Commenting on the predictions, chief economist at Saxo Bank, Steen Jakobsen said: "We have been publishing Outrageous Predictions fo...