UBS Chairman: Get Ready for Volatility in 2015

The Swiss economy may still be coming to terms with a currency shock last week but Axel Weber, the chairman of UBS, has told CNBC that it is major policy divergence between different countries that could deliver a significant slice of volatility for global asset markets in 2015.

“This is going to be a very volatile year,” he told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He said that central banks are the “major drivers” of policy this year and expected that the U.S. could further decouple from the rest of the world.

He warned that “something will give in the end” when questioned about major currency movements and was concerned that the European Central Bank (ECB) would fail to solve the region’s problems despite being expected to announce a form of quantitative easing (QE) at its meeting on Thursday.

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