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Every Country’s Stock Market Loses From Trade Tensions
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its World Economic Outlook, October 2018, with estimated global trade tension scenario impacts on GDP. Overall, the IMF states that recent tariffs will hurt GDP and that additional tariffs will weaken it further. In the long term, according to the IMF’s scenario analysis (on p. 21,) the U.S. GDP…
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Euphoria vs. Anxiety
A heavy weight battle over economic policy and financial markets is brewing between the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in one corner and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the other. Meanwhile the world’s major central banks may be lining up on one side or the other with the Bank of England (BOE) moving towards…
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Bonds Will Need to Tread Lightly With Domestic And Global Issues
Last week saw the yield of the S&P/BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index close 1 basis point tighter than the 2.61% that started its week. Thursday was the only day in which the yield moved significantly as yields tightened by 5 basis points in reaction to the weaker than expected Retail Sales release. …
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IMF Cuts US Growth Forecast, Market Reacts
The IMF released its latest forecast of US economic growth and US economic policy this afternoon, sending the S&P 500 and the Dow into negative territory. While the market response is likely to be forgotten by next Monday, the IMF’s comments are worth consideration. The forecast sees 1.9% real GDP growth in 2013, 2.7% in 2014…
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