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traders and the financial industry is talking about those headwinds for quite some time or as christine legarde to put it there are a couple of clouds forming that could eventually result in a storm among those clouds we see trade we see brics that we see monetary policy cooling of growth in china and christine lagarde for instance did not even mention that profit growth in the u.s. is actually slowing quite a bit but still the market keeps going even here on monday we solve very tiny losses was the dollar jones industrial average was other than that the markets kept getting to the upside and we've been already up for seven consecutive weeks ok so markets shrugging that off but that doesn't mean that the issues than there are obviously having to start the week with this deadline to a virgin u.s. government shutdown looming over their heads now but it's not looking particularly good on that front as it. now but still talking about shrugging it off. even seen it a couple of weeks ago when we experienced the longest shutdown in u.s. history and the u.s. economy did take some harm but still markets

global growth undershoot expectations speaking at the world government summit in dubai chief christine legarde said the world economy was growing more slowly than anticipated god decided trade tensions and tariff escalations and uncertainty over breaks it and the slowdown of the chinese economy as reasons for the current weakness last month the i.m.f. lowered its global economic growth forecast for this year from three point seven percent to three point five. billion our financial correspondent in frankfurt only trade tensions were of course on the i.m.f. list of warnings negotiations between the u.s. and china restarting this week today actually how much hope is there that both sides can actually strike a deal before the march one deadline runs out. i think there's still hope and i think there's still a lot of hope the markets all over the world. were hoping for that and you can see it by moderately positive outcomes and it's also in other quarters that you see some optimism because there's just so much at stake for both sides with the president in the united states he's looking at the market