Text size Police officers stand guard during a protest in Beijing, China, early Monday, November 28, 2022. Recent developments have not reduced the risks investors face from authoritarianism, writes Perth Tolle. Bloomberg About the Author: Perth Outcry is the founder of Life + Liberty Indexes and creator of the FRDM index. Last week we witnessed …
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Fitch expects house prices in Australia and China to fall in 2023 Fitch Ratings expects house prices in Australia to fall significantly by 7% to 10% next year, it said in its latest outlook report. The agency also predicts that house prices in China will fall by 1% to 3% next year. “We expect prices …
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Brian Brenberg, Fox News contributor and professor of economics at King’s College, reacts to the November ADP report. The explosion of US government borrowing over the past 15 years has been fueled not by loans from China and Japan, but by the purchase of Treasury bills by US financial institutions, state governments and other national …
Investors are trying to read the tea leaves on a choppy U.S. stock market to gauge whether its recent rise can continue after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sparked bullish sentiment in late November by indicating that his aggressive stock hikes interest rates could slow. “Stock market management is telling you that the economy is …
Preparing for retirement has changed significantly over the past few decades. Not only are people living longer due to improved health care, but costs have risen dramatically everywhere. The biggest difference between yesterday’s retiree and today’s retiree is the reduced defined benefit plan – or retirement plan – replaced by defined contribution plans with the …
