by Adnan Zai | Dec 13, 2019 | Global Economy
Despite slowing growth and concern over when a global downturn will come, the U.S. remains a safe place for cross-border investment. National Real Estate Investor reported this week that cross-border real estate deals totaled $46.2 billion in the first nine months, up...
by Adnan Zai | Nov 27, 2019 | Global Economy
Bloomberg reported on November 20th that the rich in Europe are increasingly investing in precious metals, cash and cryptocurrency in efforts to hedge against a future recession, as well as avoid negative interest rates. Those rates are causing sitting cash to lose...
by Adnan Zai | Nov 13, 2019 | Global Economy
While the rest of the European Union has seen an increase in foreign investment during the last three years, Britain has seen a decline that has put it at its lowest level of foreign direct investment (FDI) in six years. Despite that, it stayed at the top of the list....
by Adnan Zai | Nov 9, 2019 | Global Economy
The U.S. dollar is the currency of safety for the world. Given that the United States is also the originator of the impactful trade fight between itself and China, that creates a strange situation in which the U.S. economy is creating risk while propping itself up on...
by Adnan Zai | Nov 5, 2019 | Global Economy
On October 16th, The Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch reported from one of their polls that two-thirds of U.S. households are bracing for a possible recession. The Federal Reserve cut rates for a third time this year, giving many fearing a recession more reason to...
by Adnan Zai | Oct 24, 2019 | Global Economy
As global recession seems to be an increasingly common topic of conversation, most companies, firms and governments are asking one question: what is going to go wrong, and how can I keep myself from losing too much? As a company whose roots in real estate date back...