Global Times Finance Comprehensive Report: Recently, Apollo Global Management Company of the United States clearly listed a four-step timetable for the US economic recession: From early to mid-May, the entry of container ships into US ports will gradually stop; In the middle and late May, the demand for truck freight gradually stopped, empty shelves appeared in stores, and the sales of enterprises declined. From the end of May to the beginning of June, there were layoffs in trucking and retail. In summer, there is an economic recession
But Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, said: "We could postpone concerns about a recession for another month and analyze in detail that the economic weakness might not really be reflected in the data for several months, which in turn would push the next interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve until the third quarter." The economy will be weak in the coming months, but with the current potential momentum, if the United States can step back from the brink of tariffs in time, it is possible to avoid an economic recession
Fitch also made its latest statement at 3 a.m. Beijing time on May 3rd. The key message drawn from the overall data of this week is that the fundamentals of the US economy were strong in the first week of April, but the outlook remains highly uncertain. It also suggested that the Federal Reserve will continue to stand idly by until there is a real weakness in the labor market