It was a largely calm first four months of 2019 after a rather hectic close to 2018. Late last year, the US stock market was flirting with bear-market territory, the government was...
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It was a largely calm first four months of 2019 after a rather hectic close to 2018. Late last year, the US stock market was flirting with bear-market territory, the government was...
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Japan’s population declined for the eighth straight year in 2018, an unfortunate truth confirmed by the country's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in its annual data release...
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At the time of this writing, it appears that United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May will be unable to pass her Brexit deal through Parliament prior to the March 29 deadline for the UK to...
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After a several-week delay, thanks to the government shutdown, the US Census Bureau finally released December 2018 Retail Sales data, and the results were frightening. Frightening at a...
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In December, the US stock market flirted with bear-market territory (typically defined as a 20-percent drop from a prior peak) before a meek rally closed the month, reeling it back from the...
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We sometimes refer to the US housing market as our "canary in the coal mine" for the broader US economy. The idiom refers to coal miners' early-20th century practice of bringing caged...
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