China is likely to continue to provide investors with intermittent cause for concern, differentiating between developments in China's real economy and its often erratically moving domestic stock market - and assessing their potential impact on global asset prices -will remain key, however.

Boris Willems

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The U.S. Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise rates in March unless financial market conditions further stabilize and economic data shows marked improvement.

Such an environment could lead to bouts of heightened market volatility, particularly if investments are crowded in a few popular trades, as was frequently the case in 2015.