Flush with cash and ready to spend: the results from this year’s Fidelity Analyst Survey reveal a corporate world brimming with hopeful expectation for the coming year.

The exclusive research - which canvasses over 140 of Fidelity’s analysts from all sectors across the world - details healthy balance sheets, plans for increased capital expenditure, as well as any likely impact from inflationary pressures.

Providing context and bringing the findings to life in this podcast are three of the experts from the survey:

• Gita Bal, consumer industries credit expert
• Oliver Trimingham, equity analyst for industrials
• Marcel Stotzel, equity analyst with an expertise in IT

Hosted by Richard Edgar, Editor in Chief.

For more on the findings of the 2018 Analyst Survey, let this video explain: