GDP Growth

Robert Doll, Chief Equity Strategist and Senior Portfolio Manager at Nuveen Asset Management, was a guest on CNBC to explain why he believes the U.S. Federal Reserve is being "held hostage" by global markets. According to Doll, the current economic climate is characterized as a "...

Major U.S. equity indices rose throughout July, but at the same time, bonds have also performed well. According to analysts at Argus Research, for the first time in seven months, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index gained 4.6 percent. The question many investors are now asking is what is the...

A new week full of earnings is ahead of us. Here is a look at what analysts at Argus Research are most focused on. Earnings, Earnings, Earnings Earnings season moves into to full force this week with many giants within the Energy, Industrial, Healthcare, Consumer and Technology segment...

Julian Mitchell of Credit Suisse commented in a note that trends within the electrical equipment sector remain challenging. Mitchell's 2016 earnings per share estimates for the group are on average 3 percent below those of the Street. The analyst added that a "more muted" pricing and rising...

This article was originally published on Moneyball Economics, home of the world's most unique economic commentary. For over a year the Fed rate hike has been ‘just around the corner.’ Timing – not magnitude – has been of major focus. After all, the market has...

China's manufacturing sector showed signs of slowing again in June as two key measures of manufacturing output fell to four- and nine-month lows respectively in the country that accounted for nearly 38 percent of world GDP growth and 21.8 percent of emerging market growth in 2012. Manufacturing...

China's economy slowed substantially in the first quarter, reporting four key data points overnight. All pointed to slower growth in the first quarter and specifically in March. The data raised fears that the global economy took a downward turn in March, and that optimistic U.S. growth forecasts...