Weekly Market Compass: Geopolitics threaten to drag down economic growth
By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist in Market & Economic
Last week saw government dysfunction on full display in several different countries. While politicians in the UK and US continued to make headlines, expectations for lower economic growth emerged in a report from the International Monetary Fund.
Will the UK crash out or stay in?
In the United Kingdom last week, Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit Withdrawal Bill with resounding force, and the next day narrowly defeated a "no confidence" vote called