{"id":1867,"date":"2026-01-20T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/global-growth-continues-despite-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:18:22","slug":"global-growth-continues-despite-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/global-growth-continues-despite-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Global growth continues despite challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rising inflationary pressures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We expect the Fed will hike rates in June and one or two times in the second half of 2018. However, a temporary move above 2% in the core PCE deflator is unlikely to trigger a switch to a more aggressive pace of rate hikes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderately overweight equities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Equity markets are currently locked in a sideways holding pattern. It is possible that when markets make up their mind, the resulting move could be powerful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catalysts boost Chinese markets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US-China trade talks are likely to be protracted and no slowdown worries yet for the Chinese economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising inflationary pressures We expect the Fed will hike rates in June and one or two times in the second half of 2018. However, a temporary move above 2% in the core PCE deflator is unlikely to trigger a switch to a more aggressive pace of rate hikes. Moderately overweight equities Equity markets are currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5933,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}