For the first time since the onset of the Great Recession, all 45 countries tracked by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed positive annual GDP growth in 2017.
This synchronized global growth is certainly good news for the global economy but will it be good for equity returns? Economic growth doesn't always result in good stock market returns, but over longer periods of time the two are positively correlated.
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