Economic & Financial Intelligence Reports
The macro, market and risk context that sector forecasts depend on, stated as assumptions rather than hidden inside them.
About our Economic and Financial Intelligence coverage
Every sector forecast rests on macro assumptions and most reports bury them. This vertical exists to bring them into the open: growth, inflation, rates, currency and policy direction, set out explicitly so the sensitivity of a market forecast to each one can be tested rather than taken on trust.
Financial market structure gets its own coverage because capital availability is often the real constraint on a market we are sizing. Cost of capital decides which energy projects reach financial close, which fleets get renewed and which technology pilots survive a budget review. Reading demand without reading financing conditions produces confident forecasts that miss by a full cycle.
Risk work here is deliberately practical. Country, counterparty, supply chain concentration and regulatory exposure are assessed for their effect on a specific commercial decision, such as entering a market, signing an offtake or siting a plant, rather than being reported as an abstract score with no decision attached to it.
What we cover
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Macro Indicators in development
Growth, inflation, rates, employment and currency, framed as the input assumptions behind sector demand rather than as commentary.
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Markets and Finance 2 reports
Capital availability, cost of capital, credit conditions and investment flows, and what they permit or prevent in the real economy.
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Risk in development
Country, counterparty, supply chain and regulatory exposure, assessed against specific commercial decisions and their timing.
Economic and Financial Intelligence reports
Who uses this research
Corporate strategy and planning teams setting forecast assumptions, treasury and risk functions, investors and lenders sizing exposure, and anyone who needs the macro case behind a sector number made explicit.
Every report is delivered with the underlying data tables, a defined methodology note and analyst access, so the assumptions can be interrogated rather than accepted. If the exact scope you need is not published here, we build commissioned studies on the same framework.