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A global recession already has started to spread. It seems less and less likely that the American economy can dodge the carnage.
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With more than 60,000 reported cases of the coronavirus and nearly 1,400 deaths worldwide along with quarantines and travel restrictions, the impact of the disease on global GDP is just beginning to...
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Just like that, the major run in stocks that was continuing from 2019 has gone into the red. The coronavirus scare is growing, and now the question comes down to what's happening with interest rates.
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With the Federal Reserve announcement on a decision on interest rates this week, many eyes will be focused on what is going on with Treasury yields over the coming days.
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Some economists have been pointing to cracks in the overall forecast for the jobs market in 2020. One factor that will support at least some of the concerns is the Labor Department's Job Openings and...
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The National Association for Business Economics releases monthly data that is used to forecast expected strength or weakness in the economy in the near future.
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It wasn’t that long ago that the financial media and mainstream media were touting an imminent recession. While the media was just absolutely wrong collectively about the recession calls, and will...
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The media is having to continue to back away from all of those endless predictions of an immediate recession. One of the top firms on Wall Street is not only forecasting that there will not be a...
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While Wednesday was supposed to be a day about a Federal Reserve rate cut by the Federal Open Market Committee, it was also the day that brought the first look at third-quarter gross domestic product.
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The thought of negative interest rates in the United States is almost impossible to imagine. Now a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pointing out how and where negative...
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The IMF has released an update to its latest World Economic Outlook with lower growth expected this year, but it is still looking for global growth to be better in 2020 than in 2019.
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Sometimes there is a situation where bad news is good news in the financial markets. After the first contraction was seen in manufacturing this week, it turns out that services sector is slowing down...
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After weaker-than-expected manufacturing data was at a 10-year low and representing contraction, now the services sector is seeing some weak data as well.
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The economic confidence of Americans has hit the lowest level since the federal government shutdown ended in January. Some of the decline has to do with worries about a recession.
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With the endless media calls for a recession, one would think most Americans would at least be preparing for a downturn. But is the public just sticking its head in the sand?
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