US recession risk in 2020 is rising, according to Bank of Singapore’s chief economist Richard Jerram, signalled by peaking profitability due mainly to rising costs — especially labour — and sluggish productivity growth. The bank stresses that economy-wide stagnation of profits tends to occur before recessions, citing the profitability peaks of 3Q97 and 3Q06. “So far, the situation is not…

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