10 outrageous predictions for 2017

Singapore

THIS year, as Denmark's Saxo Bank said, is already one where reality is stranger than the most outrageous calls. In a yearly tradition, it nevertheless tries to come up with 10 far-out things that might shock the market next year.

As Saxo's chief investment officer Steen Jakobsen said: "The one idea you 'hate' the most has a tendency to come through. Let's face it - no one wanted to buy emerging-market Brazil last year."

Here's a summarised version.

1. China's GDP growth swells to 8%, SHCOMP to 5,000

"Through massive stimulus from fiscal and monetary polic…