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Economic Update
IFM Investors Chief Economist Dr Alex Joiner comments on the latest global economic news and trends.
As the US economy continues to motor along, its outperformance is leaving other global economies in its wake. Elsewhere, economic activity has been less convincing. With this decoupling, the previous period of synchronous global growth has become increasingly fractured.
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