Sugar high in U.S. will start to wear off, says HSBC’s Neumann
By Bloomberg
02 December 2018 |
11:13 am
Fred Neumann, co-head of Asian economics and managing director at HSBC, discusses the U.S. economy, the Chinese yuan and his outlook for the Chinese economy.
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