Brett Ewing on Nightly Business Report 12/19/18

Nightly Business Report – December 19, 2018   Tonight on Nightly Business Report, the Fed hikes interest rates and lowers its forecast for future rate hikes but that didn’t alleviate investor angst.

Brett F. Ewing on CNBC Street Signs

Fed has ‘put themselves in a box,’ shouldn’t hike today: Strategist   “We don’t feel there’s any reason to hike today,” Brett Ewing, chief market strategist at First Franklin, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” on Wednesday. “I think the Fed has put themselves in a box and guided the market into this hike.”

Brett F. Ewing on Reuters TV

Stocks fell Friday despite a strong October jobs report. First Franklin Financial’s chief market strategist tells Reuters’ Fred Katayama stocks are still in a correction phase.

China isn’t prepared for a trade war with America.

China Will Lose The Trade War With America, And That’s Good For Its Citizens China isn’t well prepared to fight a trade war with America. For a couple of reasons. One of them is that its economy is slowing, as it faces the “middle income trap,” and the Lewis turning point.  The income trap is a situation where a country’s growth …

Brett Ewing on Nikkei CNBC Japan

Barring a FED misstep, we continue to believe we are in a global economic expansion that started in 2016. This expansion has been given pause by trade wars and a rising dollar, both of which we expect to stop sometime in the second half of the year and give way to the continuation of the expansion.