A mixed economic bag in 2019

Nouriel Roubini | Roubini Global Economics | 13 February 2019

After the synchronised global economic expansion of 2017 came the asynchronous growth of 2018 as most countries other than the United States started to experience slowdowns. Worries about US inflation, the US Federal Reserve's policy trajectory, ongoing trade wars, Italian budget and debt woes, China's slowdown, and emerging market fragilities led to a sharp fall in global equity markets toward the end of the year.

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