Still,
worries about global growth in recent days surrounding the stock market correction are causing some to think an oil demand slowdown is in store.
CEOs were less
optimistic about global growth prospects than when PwC surveyed them a year ago, with just over a third expecting global economic growth to improve in 2015, down from 44 % last year.
Now, as many investors worry
about a global growth slowdown, rising rates and higher volatility in U.S. equity markets, dividend growers offer potential opportunities due to their healthy balance sheets, as well as better valuations, and lower volatility.
Having ceaselessly argued the economy was strong enough for rate hikes this year, the influential Dudley told an Italian newspaper that fresh concerns
about global growth make it too soon to consider a Fed rate hike.
European and Asian stocks fell Tuesday, following a sharp selloff the previous day in the U.S., as
jitters about global growth continued to weigh on investors.
Topically,
concerns about global growth, China and its stock market, oil prices, the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the forward path of interest rates, and geopolitics are drivers of the uncertain outlook.
Now, as many investors
worry about a global growth slowdown, rising rates and higher volatility in U.S. equity markets, dividend growers offer potential opportunities due to their healthy balance sheets, as well as better valuations, and lower volatility.
While the RBA is fairly
optimistic about global growth: «Chinese economy continues to grow solidly»; «The Bank's central forecast for the Australian economy remains for growth to pick up»; «Employment has grown strongly over the past year.»
«I blame this selloff on James Bullard, the St. Louis Federal Reserve (CEO) who, amazingly, said in an interview (Friday): «I know there are a lot of worries
about global growth, a lot of it coming from China, I would probably be more sanguine than the market in that dimension,»» Cramer said in Friday's commentary.
In particular, «monetary tightening could trigger a sell - off that would be especially hard on high - growth tech companies, and concerns
about global growth could reemerge and force customers to cut spending,» says Vijay Chandar, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Market Strategist.