On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Quantitative Investment Strategy Analyst Dr. Kara Ng and Rob Cittadini, director, Americas institutional, discussed the recent slowdown in global growth, impacts of the five-week partial U.S. government shutdown, and the effects of government stimulus in China.
2019 growth forecast: A slowdown across the globe?
Global growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020 were recently slashed by OECD (the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) - due in part, in Ng's opinion, to a perfect storm of recent one-off factors. "These factors include natural disasters in Japan,