Should we be worried of the ‘R’ word?

Recession poser: People passing by the New York Stock Exchange recently. In the past month, few comments were made on potential recession in the US either in 2019 or 2020. — AFP

HAVING spoken about the local economy and sectors as well as on selected individual stocks over the past three months in this column, perhaps it’s an opportune time to revisit what is happening externally and its implications on not only Malaysia’s economy, but the market as a whole.

In the article “Watch out for a Wall Street sneeze” (StarBizWeek Aug 4), this column highlighted the tell-tale signs that the market is about take a turn mainly due to flashing signals from economic and market data points.