The charts that matter: the US economy shows no sign of wilting

The US economy looks in better shape than many thought this time last month.John Stepek looks at how it's affecting the charts that matter most to the global economy.

Welcome back. Exciting news this week we've just launched a new weekly column, Currency Corner, in association with currency specialists OFX. Every Friday, Money Morning regular Dominic Frisby will be looking into the big trends and the big news stories moving the foreign exchange markets. Have a read at his introductory column here if you haven't already.

No new podcast for you this week, but if you missed Merryn's interview with India expert David Cornell about the sub-continent's prospects and the opportunities for investors then check it out here.

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John Stepek

John Stepek is a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and a former editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in psychology in 1996 and has always been fascinated by the gap between the way the market works in theory and the way it works in practice, and by how our deep-rooted instincts work against our best interests as investors.

He started out in journalism by writing articles about the specific business challenges facing family firms. In 2003, he took a job on the finance desk of Teletext, where he spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news.

His work has been published in Families in Business, Shares magazine, Spear's Magazine, The Sunday Times, and The Spectator among others. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Radio Scotland, Newsnight, Daily Politics and Bloomberg. His first book, on contrarian investing, The Sceptical Investor, was released in March 2019. You can follow John on Twitter at @john_stepek.