The overlooked catalyst that could trigger a global financial crisis
It has been over a decade since the downfall of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis which left the world struggling for years after the debt bubble burst, however, the next major decline might...
Commodities set to benefit on U.S.-China trade talks
Experts are anticipating the ongoing rally in commodities prices to continue in coming months, regardless of investor anxiety of the result of U.S.-China trade war.
Trump imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports last...
Global stocks dip as economic slowdown fears grow louder
Asian stocks closed in the red on Monday on growing worries of an economic slowdown. European and American stocks are likely to follow suit.
Stocks dropped considerably in Asia as investors reacted to disappointing manufacturing...
Economic slowdown weighs on U.S. manufacturing
As U.S. economic growth continues to slow, U.S. manufacturing has slumped for its 2nd month in a row, missing out on major forecasts.
U.S. factory production fell by 0.4 percent after a revised 0.5 decrease...
Is this the year of growth stocks?
Economic growth is slowing in the United States, and the slide is having a significant impact on the dollar. Investors are now looking to gold and growth stocks as a potential hedge against the...
Is the U.S.-China trade war nearing an end?
President Donald Trump's leading trade war mediator U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that the U.S. is making "headway" on problems it considers essential, including its desire for China to make deep structural modifications...
A global debt storm is brewing says S&P analysts
Domestic and global debt is now even greater than before the global financial crisis, making the world susceptible to economic and market shocks, S&P Global Rankings has warned.
S&P analysts have found that global debt...
Consumers breathe a sigh of relief as U.S. inflation forecasts fall
In a potential boon for the economy, consumers in the United States are expecting a less gradual increase in the price of goods and services. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,...
Global poverty is on the decline…kind of
Last month, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates touched off a prominent dispute about global poverty after tweeting out a chart from the site Our World in Data showing that the variety of people...
Washington shrugs as budget deficit continues to soar
The federal deficit spending is ballooning on President Donald Trump's watch and Washington does not seem to mind.
And even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting offers decades earlier has vanished,...
