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IMF lowers global growth forecast, warns of increasing risks
Global output will expand 3.2%, 0.1 percentage point slower than a July estimate, the IMF said in an update of its World Economic Outlook released on Tuesday.
October 22, 2024
Global Economy
Has China really peaked?
Bhaskaran sees that China can muster growth that is higher than the global average over the next few decades.
October 11, 2024
Global Economy
LGT sees ‘soft landing’ for US, likes Japan, India, Europe and Thailand; predicts modest growth for China
The bank also expects investors to favour bonds over equities and cash in the first half of 2024.
February 21, 2024
Global Economy
‘Slowing growth and stubbornly high inflation for months to come’: CGS-CIMB
Slow growth and high inflation for months to come, warns CGS-CIMB.
July 21, 2022
Global Economy
Global economy outlook ‘highly uncertain’, post-pandemic recovery ‘weak and gradual’: MAS
The outlook for the global economy is highly uncertain, as Covid-19 has ravaged markets worldwide at an unprecedented scale, said Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
July 16, 2020
Global Economy
After Covid-19: A new world takes shape
Across the globe, lockdowns are easing and economic activity is gradually resuming. But with the pandemic likely to be with us for a long time; the world is not going back to its old ways. Typically, deep and widespread crises such as
June 12, 2020
Global Economy
Asian economic growth slated for moderate slowdown: SSGA
SINGAPORE (July 4): Asia’s economic growth is expected to continue to weaken against a backdrop of unresolved trade tensions, according to asset manager State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation.
July 04, 2019
Commentary
The eternally optimistic IMF
(May 6): In April 2018, the International Monetary Fund projected that the world economy would grow robustly, at just above 3.9% that year and into 2019. The global upswing, the fund said, had become “broader and stronger.” That view quickly proved to
May 06, 2019
Global Economy
Singapore remains among world's 'least miserable' economies
SINGAPORE (Feb 15): Rising prices are more of a threat to the global economy this year than joblessness, according to Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which sums inflation and unemployment outlooks for 66 economies.
February 15, 2018