From
Bloomberg:
The World Bank cut its global growth forecast by the most in three years, saying that a recession in the euro region threatens to exacerbate a slowdown in emerging markets such as India and
Mexico.
The world economy will grow 2.5 percent this year, down from a June estimate of 3.6 percent, the Washington-based institution said. The euro area may contract 0.3 percent, compared with a previous estimate of a 1.8 percent gain. The U.S. growth outlook was cut to 2.2 percent from 2.9 percent.
“Even achieving these much weaker outturns is very uncertain,” the World Bank said in its Global Economic Prospects
report released today in Asia and yesterday in the U.S. “The downturn in
Europe and weaker growth in developing countries raises the risk that the two developments reinforce one another, resulting in an even weaker outcome.”
China, the world’s second-biggest economy, reported today that foreign direct investment declined in December by the most since July 2009, underscoring the
World Bank’s warning that developing economies should “prepare for the worst.”.....
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