Trade war, ongoing government shutdown threaten to drag down the economy in 2019

By Elizabeth Crawford

07-Jan-2019 Last updated on 31-Jul-2019 at 09:41 GMT

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Fears about trade wars and populist policies will start to take a toll on the US economy in 2019, despite ongoing robust business investment and fast-growing consumer spending that helped buoy the country’s GDP in 2018, according to new research from Euromonitor International.

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