Highlight of the Week
IMF Predicts Global Rebound for the Economy
- 2019 marked the weakest growth since the financial crisis – only 2.9 %
- The IMF predicts 3.3 % growth in 2020 – driven by a combination of monetary policy easing in 2019 and a stall in America’s two-year trade war with China
Rate Curves
Rapid Report:
A look inside the world of quantum computing
- Companies like Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are betting big on the future of quantum
- Quantum computing encodes data into bits that may represent a one, a zero, or some combination – classical computing represents bits as only a one or a zero
- Forecasters predict quantum computers could help Wall Street optimize portfolios, simulate economic portfolios, and simulate economic forecasts for complex risk analysis
Atlanta drives commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Ebenezer Baptist Church hosted its Annual Commemorative Service Monday
- King is widely regarded as one of the greatest nonviolent leaders – spearheading the Civil Rights Movement before his assassination in 1968 – King was born in Atlanta and attended Booker T. Washington High School
Super Bowl set
The Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers in Miami on February 2nd
