{"id":39826,"date":"2019-06-22T05:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39826"},"modified":"2019-06-22T05:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T05:22:18","slug":"the-smart-money-is-hedging-against-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39826","title":{"rendered":"The smart money is hedging against the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Wall Street is giddy about the possibility that the Federal Reserve could lower interest rates as soon as July. The S&#038;P 500 traded at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/20\/investing\/dow-stock-market-today\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">all-time trading high<\/a> Thursday. But some experts think it&#8217;s time investors look outside the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;There are bigger and better opportunities in emerging markets like China and India,&#8221; said Chris Gaffney, president of world markets for TIAA Bank.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Gaffney said that is partly because valuations for stocks in those markets are more attractive than in the United States. The <span>S&#038;P 500<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=SPX&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">SPX<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>, after all, is now up 18% this year while the <span>Nasdaq<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/markets\/nasdaq\/?source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">COMP<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> has soared more than 20%.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Wall Street is giddy about the possibility that the Federal Reserve could lower interest rates as soon as July. The S&amp;P 500 traded at an all-time trading high Thursday. But some experts think it&#8217;s time investors look outside the United States.&#8221;There are bigger and better opportunities in emerging markets like China and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}