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Wall Street Today: Global growth boom may disappoint, Morgan Stanley warns

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Wall Street Today: Global growth boom may disappoint, Morgan Stanley warns
Global growth boom may disappoint, Morgan Stanley’s Sharma warns
Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets and chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, is the author of bestsellers including “Breakout Nations” in 2012 and “The Rise and Fall of Nations” in 2016, isn’t predicting a global bust.
What he’s warning is that the consensus for a robust boom may be overlooking downside risks that may cause momentum to fade sooner than expected.
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Wall Street Today: Global growth boom may disappoint, Morgan Stanley warns
Prices have boomed worldwide this year, smashing record after record. Roaring industrial demand is propelling those rallies, with plants straining to boost supply after lying dormant during the pandemic.
Record stock rally ignores Wall Street’s phobia about optimism
The latest victim of the rampaging bull market in stocks is the Wall Street maxim that glowing investor sentiment is a sell signal.
Throughout 2021, a range of surveys, fund-flow figures and options activity have shown investors big and small to be exceptionally bullish. Yet major U.S. indexes continue to rally to records, putting the Dow Jones Industrial Average up a healthy 13% for 2021.
Recently, signs of waning sentiment have begun peeking through some indicators, though bullishness largely remains above or near long-term averages.
Wall Street Today: Global growth boom may disappoint, Morgan Stanley warns
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OPEC and allies target full end to oil production cuts by September 2022
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Coordinated increases in oil supply from the group, known as OPEC+, will begin in August, OPEC announced in a statement.
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The billionaire's spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has completed the flight readiness review for its first-ever crewed launch, which will send Bezos and three others to suborbital space on a vehicle called New Shepard.
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