By guest contributor Rafiyat Husnain, Analyst, Atchison Consultants
The ongoing trade spat between the U.S. and China may be heightening the risk of an impending economic slowdown and cause increasingly volatile financial markets as we begin the new year. In addition to rising costs due to trade barriers, any escalation of disputes between the two nations may cause knock-on harm to other export-reliant economies as well. The diagram above illustrates the rapidly growing trade imbalance between the...