Loading ...Ignore the ‘Faint Whiff of Panic;’ Global Growth Is Accelerating
by Simon Kennedy
July 10, 2015 — 3:19 AM EDT
You wouldn’t know it given the noise from China and Greece, but the world economy is picking up steam.
Morgan Stanley predicted on Thursday global expansion of almost 4 percent in the second half of this year, up from 2.9 percent in the first six months.
The firm says monetary stimulus is taking hold and will even be extended by 18 central banks this year, enough reason for optimism despite it also forecasting a protracted slowdown in China and 75 percent risk of Greece leaving the euro.
“The strength of domestic demand in developed economies will be the key engine of growth,” Chetan Ahya and Elga Bartsch, Morgan Stanley’s co-chief economists, told clients. “We expect the global economy to continue on the path of gradual recovery.”
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