US Recession

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

Famed Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said that the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. Not the most...

Given stubbornly high U.S. inflation and the Federal Reserve’s apparent determination to bring it down, I now foresee a U.S. recession within the next 12...

We believe that one of the biggest issues for financial markets in the period ahead is the risk of a recession in the world's largest economy bringing down equity...

An economic boom may be defined as a period where GDP growth is high on an absolute basis (above 5%) and higher than the period preceding it. India has experienced...

Investors considering their US allocation in 2020 may feel nervous about the macroeconomic and political crosswinds blowing across the investment landscape.Here we...

The consensus outlook for the US economy has become increasingly fearful in recent months. In particular, the bears point to renewed trade war concerns, which have...

The Federal Reserve's recent about-face on interest rates – holding the federal funds target rate range to 2.25% to 2.50% following some very rocky markets and modest...

Let’s start by defining what a recession actually is. Google’s dictionary defines it as ‘a period of temporary economic decline during which trading and industrial...

In response to the calamity caused by the GFC, interest rates were cut to near zero and we doubled the amount of debt outstanding. Fast forward and interest rates are...