Tag Archive: GDP

  1. As People Get Richer, Do Investment Returns Get Better?

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    No, they don’t. Research shows there is a negative correlation between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita – a measure of how wealthy people in a country are becoming – and investment returns. (more…)

  2. Let’s Hear It For Family Businesses!

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    Family-owned and family-controlled businesses are a pretty important part of the global economy. McKinsey & Company recently noted:

    “In many ways, family businesses are stronger, more vital, and more important than they have ever been.” (more…)

  3. The Markets

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    It’s déjà vu all over again!

    Last year, pundits and analysts tried to discern when the Federal Reserve might begin to end quantitative easing by reading economic tea leaves. For months, bad economic news proved to be good news for stock markets. This year, investors are seeking signs which might indicate when the Fed will begin to raise interest rates and, once again, bad news has become good news. Last week’s weaker-than-expected unemployment report helped push U.S. stock markets higher, according to Reuters, because it was interpreted to mean the Fed would not raise rates soon.  (more…)

  4. The Markets

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    If you have young children or grandchildren, you may have read “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” by American author Judith Viorst. Well, that’s what last week was like on the European continent from an economic perspective. (more…)

  5. What’s The Fastest Growing Country In Latin America?

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    Nope, it’s not Brazil. The gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for Brazil was lowered from 2.2 percent in January 2014 to 1.8 percent in June 2014, according to The Economist. That means Brazil is expected to grow more slowly than the United States this year. (more…)

  6. The Markets

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    Sometime this year, you may have the opportunity to experience an event that’s rarer than a lunar or solar eclipse – an economic eclipse. The United States (US) has had the world’s largest economy since it surpassed Britain’s back in 1872, but the US economy is about to be overshadowed by China’s.  (more…)

  7. The Markets

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    If you’re feeling whiplashed from the mid-week collision of good and bad economic news, you’re not alone. (more…)

  8. There’s some good news and there’s some bad news….

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    The good news is the rate of global gross domestic product (GDP) growth increased during the second quarter, according to The Economist. Greater economic strength in developed countries helped push the world’s GDP 2.4 percent higher during the second quarter of 2013 as compared to the second quarter of 2012. That’s only the third time that has happened in three years. The bad news, according to The Economist, is: 

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  9. The Markets

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    Robert Burns, father of fourteen and writer of Auld Lang Syne, once said, “There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.” Was he ever right!

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  10. The Markets

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    Like guests feeling the first rain drops at a Bank Holiday barbeque, markets responded uncertainly to the GDP and Labour market update last week.

    According to the Office of National Statistics Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was unrevised in the first quarter of 2013, growing by 0.3% on the quarter, following a contraction of 0.3% in the final quarter of 2012.

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