IMF Global Growth Outlook Update

On July 23, the IMF issued its formal Global Growth Update with a lukewarm forecast.   Global growth is now estimated at 3.2% for 2019 and 3.5% for 2020.   Both of these two estimates are 0.1% lower than the estimates last published in the April Update.  By comparison, global growth in 2018 was…

When you’re managing your portfolio, it is critical to understand how important diversification is. All of us hope that our current investments will increase however there will be times when some of them will lose money. This is why you need other types of investments – you need to diversify.

Investors know that the world has shrunk and that a large part of US company corporate profits are generated from overseas sales and operations. It is important, therefore, to monitor economic growth forecasts from unbiased authorities and institutions. Fortunately, there are three eminent, world class…

On July 16, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave a speech in Paris at a Conference organized by the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance. In this speech, Powell outlined his current thinking about central bank policy and intervention in the marketplace. It is clear from this speech that…

An ETF is an exchange-traded-fund whose assets are invested in the stocks or bonds of publicly traded companies. Most ETF securities specialize in one industry or enterprise effort. For example, the XLE is an ETF that holds large-cap US energy stocks that are members of the S//P 500 Index. This ETF holds…