We are proud to release the 2025 edition of its annual Watchlist, entitled Watchlist 2025: The World at a Crossroads.  

Explaining the theme of this year’s edition, Finalto Chief Market Analyst Neil Wilson said: “We enter 2025 at a crossroads. The last two decades have been marked by flux and uncertainty, but in an increasingly fragmented and polarised world, the outcomes appear more binary than ever. War or peace; bulls or bears; populism or technocracy?” 

You can download your copy of the Watchlist 2025 here: https://www.finalto.com/white-papers/the-watchlist-2025  

To capture this pivotal moment, Finalto’s annual Watchlist for 2025 takes the geopolitical inflection point as its subject. Finalto’s Watchlist 2025: The World at a Crossroads does not purport to be a set of predictions. Rather, the team have drawn on their close reading of the markets, macro conditions and global politics throughout 2024 to produce a series of extreme scenarios for the world in 2025. 

“This year’s Watchlist is about coming to grips with volatility. By thinking through the ways that our collective future might unfurl, we aim to help bring into clearer relief the stakes, the challenges and the opportunities that face humanity in the coming year and beyond,” Wilson said.  

From Washington to the Stars 

Key themes include how Donald Trump’s administration will transform the world (or not), the political economy of Europe, whether Rachel Reeves will deliver on her part’s economic promises, South Africa’s economic prospects, plus a spotlight on the potential good and bad of the new generation of ‘miracle’ weight loss drugs like Ozempic.  

The authors even ponder what the race to Mars might really mean for humanity. 

The 2025 Watchlist builds on previous editions of the Watchlist, with reconsidering the trajectory of the global economy in the wake of Trump’s election, Labour’s electoral victory, China’s economic challenges and increasing tension in the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere. 

In addition to the Watchlist itself, Finalto will roll out a series of posts and stories unpacking some of the core themes identified in this year’s edition.

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