The following will suggest different things to different people: CANBERRA, Australia—The U.S. is vying to build an internet network in Papua New Guinea to

International Trade in Goods   Released On 9/27/2018 8:30:00 AM For Aug, 2018 Prior Prior Revised Consensus Consensus Range Actual Balance $-72.2 B $-72.1 B $-70.8 B $-72.2 B to $-69.0 B

As the whole world expected, the Fed raised its benchmark rate by .25% today and signaled that there’s another coming in December and 3

Every now and again, when I feel it would be instructive (or at least interesting) for readers, I’ll share a market log entry on

In a blog post last Thursday I quoted the following from a Bloomberg Economics article: “China is planning to cut the average tariff rates

Stock market seasonality is never an investment theme, and it can be a most difficult thing to trade. With that out of the way,

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Bloomberg’s Economics Team shares our view that it may indeed be a notable rough patch for stocks that ultimately brings the trade war to

In our September 10 message we said to “expect a rough patch”. Here was our reasoning: We should absolutely expect a rough patch, in the

If we’re right, and a “rough patch” is on the near-term horizon (what an easy “prediction” to make! I mean, there’s never not a