

Fasten your seat belts. Presidential Tweets make for a bumpy ride.
2017 was a bumper year for global stock markets. Investors shook off pessimism about growth and focused instead on the fact that the world was experiencing a period of synchronized economic expansion. Tax cuts passed by America’s Congress in December were the icing on the cake, boosting both the American economy and payouts to the shareholders of multinational firms. This year concerns come to the fore as Central banks are starting the long-announced withdrawal of some of the