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Heavy users of copper saw a solid decline in output in January, boding ill for future demand for the metal in coming months. The Global Copper Users PMI Output Index hit a near ten-year low at the start of 2019, indicating a downturn of the scale not seen since the Financial Crisis. This giv...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, head of global market research Fear of US Fed overtightening was a major catalyst behind the global market spasms late last year. The good news is that financial conditions have broadly loosened since then, particularly in the US, bringing relief to ner...

By Jeffrey Kleintop As stocks have posted solid gains so far in 2019, analysts' earnings per share estimates have been falling. That isn't unusual, as analysts are often too optimistic at the start of the year. But, the pace of the decline in estimates has been eye-catching, as you can see...

Europe is awash in credit exhaustion, and so is China. The signs are everywhere: credit exhaustion is global , and that means the global growth story is over: revenues and profits are all sliding as lending dries up and defaults pile up. What is credit exhaustion? Qualified buyers don'...

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In this article, I draw attention to the similarities between the current economic situation and that of 1929, and the threat to today's unbacked currencies. There is the coincidence of trade protectionism with the top of the credit cycle, and there are the inflationary events that preceded it...

By Douglas J. Peebles, Eric Winograd Transcript: This video is the second in a three-part series. Click here to access part one, The Long View: Debt and Demographics. Doug Peebles It's sort of hard to exactly define populism. Oftentimes, populist expectations lean a little b...

Impact of lower rates, China tax cuts and political progress likely to be evident by mid-2019 Weak incoming data, both in respect of profits forecasts and the global economy, are in sharp contrast to the strong performance of risk assets such as equities and corporate credit during 2019. C...

It is critical to keep in mind that monetary policy changes impact the real economy at a lag of several quarters. So the tightening cycle that ran from December 2015 to December 2018 will continue to dampen global demand over the next several quarters, even if central banks tighten no further ...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted gains through February 4, 2019. The top performer is Hong Kong's Hang Seng with an 11.99% gain and in second is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 7.96%. In third is the Shanghai SSE with a gain of 7.65%. Coming in last is ...