ESGW News and Press, Columbia Sustainable Global Equity Income ETF Columbia ETF Trust I From 03/06/19

Originally published February 28, 2019 Starting about 18 months ago I assessed the risk of a recession before the next presidential election to be over 50% because we at Bridgewater calculated that a) the growth spurt would be temporary and fade and b) the Fed's policies in response to the...

By Stefan Hofrichter, CFA, Global Economist at Allianz Global Investors Has the global economy once again become overloaded with debt? More than 10 years on from the financial crisis – which was, at its core, a debt crisis – there are signs that indebtedness is reaching worri...

Another Global Financial Crisis, with China at the Epicenter? Anytime an economic slowdown and a housing downturn appear in the scenery, there are questions about the next global financial crisis. That's a bitter aftertaste from the last global financial crisis. But China is somewhat special...

Originally published Feb 22, 2019 In a welcome development for global equity investors, the pace of 2019 earnings downgrades has eased markedly during the first three weeks of February. Furthermore, while 2019 consensus corporate profits growth has fallen from initial expectations of aroun...

Asia will drive the global economy in 2019, according to an analysis of 40 major economies based on inflation and GDP growth forecasts by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company's analysis categorizes each country by "Low", "Moderate" and "High" GDP growth rate together...

It's so obscure now, I actually had to go back and reread what was going on there at the time. On May 29, the mainstream consensus was how Italian populists were screwing up Europe. Global bond markets were supposed to be selling off, massacred as global recovery took hold. Instead, worldwide ...

By Erik Knutzen, Chief Investment Officer - Multi-Asset Class For investors, the mature part of this cycle may feel like the rest of the cycle writ large. The MSCI All Country World Index is up some 250% since the financial crisis. But was there ever a cycle in which investors were mor...

Rising population was thought to be bad for our standard of living, with classic books such as Limits to Growth and Population Bomb projecting fewer resources per person and environmental collapse. A new book, Empty Planet , makes the forecast that world population will hit a peak and the...

Bob Hoye – Gold, stock markets, commodities, credit markets Martin Armstrong – World economic outlook, gold, real estate. Eric Hadik – Market cycles and human behavior. Larry Reaugh President & CEO of American Manganese Inc. Produc...

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...