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The Economic And Economic Growth Of China's Economy

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2016
Coming out of a lackluster 2015, GDP growth slowed to 1.5%. Confidence of investors and consumers was unable to make significant gains as a result of the Presidential election and global uncertainty. The outcome of the 2016 election had a great affect on the US economy and the fiscal and monetary policies that could be put in place. Uncertainty over taxes, regulations, and trade following the election have led to a slowdown of growth.
Consumption and government spending both increased from the previous year. The big weaknesses for Real GDP growth came from business investment and exports decreasing from the previous period.
Consumption’s gains were based on trends continuing from 2015 including consumer confidence growing …show more content…

This shows that businesses are not confident about the state of the economy and are not investing. This leads to stagnating wages, job creation, and production, which lowers overall Real GDP.
Exports have been affected by global events. Most importantly, “Brexit” added to fears that the European Union is unstable and other countries may follow the UK and leave the union. The EU is a major trade partner of the US and China, which could disrupt global trade. Brexit has caused major volatility in global markets as well. This could trigger consumers to stop spending and save more. Brexit also hiked up the US dollar 6.3% against the British pound. This continues the trend from last year of low exports and revenues in the manufacturing sector further impeding profits and limiting their willingness to invest.
2016 monetary policy continued the trend from the previous year by keeping rates low and only increasing rates once during the year. The Fed raised rates to a range of 0.50-0.75% in December. Confidence in the economy is up and is anticipated to continue into 2017 with more frequent rate hikes.
The stock market was greatly affected by the election of President Donald Trump. The S&P 500 and DJIA both fell around 4% immediately following the election, however, the market quickly rebounded and all major indexes have recorded all-time highs. Financial sector stocks

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