Economics

International Economics

Bargain-Hunting Investors Are Bidding Up UK Stocks

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UK stocks have been outperforming US stocks on a broad index-based level for the past seven weeks, but this isn’t a case of a UK renaissance.

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Economics

Is the US Seeing a Startup Boom?

After a slump through the latter half of the last decade, the US is experiencing a startup tsunami, according to The Economist.

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International Economics

Europe Wants to Fix Its Widening Productivity Gap With the US

European productivity has increased only about 20% since 2000, about one-third the rate of the US.

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Inflation & Prices

Renters Are Losing Hope They’ll Ever Own a House

A New York Fed survey found renters saying their probability of ever owning a home fell to 40.1%, a new low.

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Inflation & Prices

Cocoa Prices Are On a Wild Ride

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Cocoa prices plunged almost 30% in the past week after a rally that pushed prices nearly 80% higher to start the year.

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Advisor Upside

Older, Wealthy Americans Are Delaying Rate Cuts With Their Big Spending

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Spending by older affluent Americans is helping grow the economy. But it’s also contributing to a delay in the Federal Reserve cutting rates.

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Economics

US Growth to Lap G7 Peers, IMF Predicts

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The US economy will grow twice as fast as any of its major Western peers this year.

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