Money trends were abysmal for most parts of 2022 and the early parts of 2023, but we are starting to see interesting trends arising in the global money growth with clear geographical divergences.

Japan, China and the Euro zone have reported January M1, M2 and M3 developments and while trends remain benign in JPY and CNY, the money trends in EUR are re-worsening. A gap seems to be opening between USD and EUR money trends, which rhymes well with our strong thesis of a growing inflation gap between the US and the Euro zone.

What’s more, trillions of dollars parked a on the risk asset sidelines as the massive 30% growth of the broad money base is currently mostly marked in time deposits and money market funds. Find out more below.

Chart 1: Money growth in %