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Corporate insights
Financial hedging can buy valuable time when markets move rapidly. Pandora’s treasury team used that time to support a broader business response, combining risk management, pricing initiatives and structural change, as the price of silver rose.
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Business growth
The Nordic Compass alliance will convene this autumn to present proposals for strengthening competitiveness and resilience in the Nordics. Nordea is a founding partner in Nordic Compass and leading one of four strategic tracks focusing on retaining Nordic capital in the region to support growth.
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Economic Outlook
Finland’s long period of weak productivity growth finally appears to be easing. Part of the turnaround reflects a better cyclical backdrop, but the drivers of longer-term productivity growth have also strengthened.
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Economic Outlook
Global growth has continued to be robust and is benefitting from rapid technological development, which is boosting fixed asset investment.
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Markets and investment
With currency risk showing no signs of easing, Sweden’s largest corporates are taking markedly different paths to managing FX risk, from full hedging to no hedging at all. Four treasury leaders share how they think about the challenge.
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Markets and investment
Despite AI’s rapid growth, Nordea’s Kirsti Sunde Midttun and Ole Håkon Eek-Nielsen see several challenges to profitability and present a more sceptical view of the industry’s prospects.
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Markets and investment
The article is based on Nordea's latest quarterly Rates and FX webinar, in which economists Jan Størup Nielsen and Samir Barki reviewed the key trends in financial markets and presented Nordea's forecasts for the remainder of 2026.
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Markets and investment
A year after its launch, Nordea’s Empower Europe fund has attracted EUR 870m, highlighting continued investor interest in investment opportunities focused on Europe’s long-term development. The strong inflow makes it one of the most strongest fund launches at Nordea Asset Management in recent years.
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Corporate insights
The recent Beijing summit won't reset US-China relations, but it offers something businesses have craved since 2018: predictability. We break down what "managed stability" means for Nordic companies navigating global supply chains.
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Savings
Funds are a popular way to invest because they make investing simpler, more diversified and easier to access than buying individual company shares on your own.
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Economic Outlook
The Middle East war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupt energy and supply chains and weaken confidence. We therefore downgrade our global growth forecast, while central banks face rising price pressures.
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Economy
Energy prices have risen significantly, but diversified energy supply and lower energy consumption limit the risk of economic collapse. Nuclear power and renewable energy come into focus in the EU's future energy policy.
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