The concerns are many, but here are three things that are going right with the economy and may be helping the U.S. to stave off a recession.
Outlook
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Consumer confidence fell to its lowest point since November, a shockingly bad result that surprised several investment managers on the Covestor platform.
Bill Gross at PIMCO says that 10-year Treasury yields will soon bottom out, which if true could hurt the prices of dividend-paying stocks.
Facebook is now on watch and could be dropped to a failing grade for corporate governance by GMI Ratings.
Copper prices continue to move sideways -- one sign that the U.S. economy is hanging in there, and is not on the precipice of collapse.
Samsung enjoys the upper hand in China’s smartphone market, which is set to overtake the US as the world’s biggest later in the year.
Three widely used economic figures are not good at predicting where the U.S. economy is headed next, says BlackRock's Russ Koesterich. Here are two that work:
Low market volume may say less about the quality of rallies and more about the disadvantage of very large investment funds that have lost their nimbleness.
Dr. Doom is out with his gloomiest message yet: This time he says the odds of a global recession are “100!”