• Fitch: "advanced country growth is expected to pick up to 1.9% in 2017 and 2% in 2018 from 1.6% in 2016"

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6 March 2017

Fitch: "advanced country growth is expected to pick up to 1.9% in 2017 and 2% in 2018 from 1.6% in 2016"

  • Global growth shows resilience to political uncertainty

  • "Near-term outlook for growth in advanced countries has improved despite persistent political uncertainties"

  • In eurozone re-emergence of concerns about fragmentation of currency-bloc could result in tighter credit conditions, significantly reduced growth

  • "Bank of japan has held short-term interest rates steady at -0.1% and we no longer expect further cuts into more negative territory"

  • Now expects US Fed to raise rates three times this year and by a total of seven times over 2017 and 2018

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