Introducing

Andrew Cates

Andy Cates joined Haver Analytics as a Senior Economist in 2020. Andy has more than 25 years of experience forecasting the global economic outlook and in assessing the implications for policy settings and financial markets. He has held various senior positions in London in a number of Investment Banks including as Head of Developed Markets Economics at Nomura and as Chief Eurozone Economist at RBS. These followed a spell of 21 years as Senior International Economist at UBS, 5 of which were spent in Singapore. Prior to his time in financial services Andy was a UK economist at HM Treasury in London holding positions in the domestic forecasting and macroeconomic modelling units.   He has a BA in Economics from the University of York and an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southampton.

Publications by Andrew Cates

• Global| Jun 18 2020

  More QE from the BoE

  The Bank of England’s (BoE) decision to expand its quantitative easing programme today by Ł100bln was not a big surprise for financial market participants. The incoming dataflow in recent days has offered an unambiguously bleak [...]

  by:Andrew Cates

  |in:Economy in Brief
• Global| Jun 10 2020

  Taking the Temperature with Non-traditional Data

  Many economists are now looking to non-traditional real-time data sources to get a bearing on the economic temperature. That's partly because of the normal lags that exist between the period to which traditional data sources pertain [...]

  by:Andrew Cates

  |in:Viewpoints
• Global| Jun 10 2020

  Taking the Temperature with Non-traditional Data

  Many economists are now looking to non-traditional real-time data sources to get a bearing on the economic temperature. That's partly because of the normal lags that exist between the period to which traditional data sources pertain [...]

  by:Andrew Cates

  |in:Economy in Brief