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![2018 Outlook II: Roaring Bull Faces Hurdles](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/light-house-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
After a bumper year for equities, strategists are forecasting further gains for 2018, while pointing to risks from rising bond yields and higher volatility.
![2018 Outlook I: Economic Momentum Continues](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cargo-shipping-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
The synchronized growth witnessed in 2017 is expected to continue this year, according to economists, who say markets can weather the gradual normalization of monetary policy.
![Stocks Wrap Up Vintage Year with December Gains](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Holidays-Intro-Image-900x350.jpg)
Global stock indices extended their record-breaking rally in December to end 2017 with the biggest annual returns since 2013.
![2017 Review: Global Economy and Risk-Taking Steam Ahead – Part II](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NYC-900x350.png)
Despite the Fed’s and the ECB’s divergent trajectories, the dollar fell against the euro to $1.18 in December from $1.05 in January, confounding expectations. At the start of 2017, the average forecast from five banks pointed to the euro ending the year at $1.05.
The post-crisis economic recovery gathered pace in 2017 as the Eurozone and Japan joined the global growth momentum, helping investors push risk assets higher.
![Capturing Megatrends: Breakthrough Healthcare](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/vaccines-intro-900x350.jpg)
Whether it’s optimizers of patient treatment or hybrid bio-chemical drugs, many health-care stocks are inventing the future.
![Capturing Megatrends: Digitalization](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Diana-Tech-Thematic-Whitepaper-intro-900x350.jpg)
It would be difficult to single out a more disruptive transformation in the last two decades, globally, than the penetration of the mobile phone and digital technologies in our daily lives.
![Capturing Megatrends: Automation & Robotics](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Thematics-BlackRock-ETF-Intro-900x350.jpg)
In 1811 in Nottingham, England, a mob of angry blue-collar workers attacked factories and destroyed machines, protesting the use of automated pattern weaving systems that were displacing them from their textile manufacturing jobs and depriving them of their livelihood.
![Capturing Megatrends: Ageing Populations](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Leverage-Shares-2-intro-900x350.jpg)
Demographics have caused famous investors like Bill Gross to warn of a headwind to markets, with slower economic growth becoming the ‘new normal’ just as much as grey hairs come with age.