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I understand from stock bulls that central banks have got all this under control. That's good, because even India, the world's fastest-growing large economy, has taken its growth rate estimate for the current fiscal year ending March 31 down to 5% - the slowest growth rate since 2009 and compa...

By Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund In the October World Economic Outlook, we described the global economy as in a synchronized slowdown, with escalating downside risks that could further derail growth. Since th...

I'm going to go back to Mexico for the third day in a row. First, it was imports (meaning Mexico's exports), then, automobile manufacturing , and, now, Industrial Production. I'll probably come back to this tomorrow when INEGI updates that last number for November 2019. For now, through O...

Iran fires missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of Iran’s top general. As pressures continue to mount in the Middle East, Kim Parlee speaks with Michael Craig, Head of Asset Allocation, TD Asset Management, about implications for equity markets. ...

By Darren Williams, Guy Bruten Transcript: Guy Bruten: So, what's the bottom line here for 2020 in terms of some of these populism risks? Darren Williams: Well, some resolution to things like Brexit may help, just as some resolution to the trade tensions between China and the ...

We commented last week that we still prefer investing in the United States despite acknowledging that there was more potential upside abroad as global growth accelerated in 2020. Our decision, which many disagreed with, was based on one of our core beliefs which is that we live in an VUCA (vol...

Jack Aldrich: Previously, on The Bid: Philipp Hildebrand: So the way we framed this discussion over the last two days is really to say on the one hand, we have a cycle that continues to be in place. It gets extended, again supported by further monetary policy easing. And at the same time...

Catherine Kress: For the past decade, as we've formed our year-ahead investment outlooks, we've been able to agree that the business cycle will keep going. That the bull market will keep running. And that's been true year after year. And in the short term, this looks like it will continue to...

By Meral Karasulu, PhD, Director of Fixed Income Research, Global Debt Team , and Turgut Kisinbay, PhD, Director of Fixed Income Research The trend may have peaked, but we don’t think it’s ending. Globalization means many things - migration, the exchange of ideas and...

By Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the IMF; Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Deputy Director in the Research Department of the IMF; and Malhar Nabar, Division Chief of the World Economic Studies Division in the IMF's Research Department Global growt...