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(Bloomberg) -- Asian equities began the first trading day of the year with little momentum, after US stocks retreated from near all-time highs last week in a blip for a market notching its longest weekly advance since 2004.Most Read from BloombergQuake Hits Northwestern Japan, Killing Four, Wrecking HomesIran Sends Warship to Red Sea After US Sinks Houthi BoatsIndia’s Crude Oil Imports From Russia Plunge on Payment IssuesMaersk Halts Red Sea Shipping as US Navy Sinks Houthi BoatsPutin Says He Wa

Equity markets have gone up so fast that they’re very vulnerable to a pullback if the US economy slips into even a mild recession. Read on.

Shares slipped in New York, with the S&P 500 failing for now to reset its record high. Still, the index rallied 24pc in 2023; the Nasdaq 100 leapt 54pc.

Changes in productivity are better measured by GDP per capita than just GDP but, until recently, we rarely heard politicians or anyone else talk about GDP per capita

Investors may want to start thinking about a scenario in which good news outweighs bad