The Moody's Investors Service international credit rating agency has forecast diminishing global growth in 2016, citing the slump in commodity prices and weaker emerging market performance as the main causes of the slowdown. The G20 emerging markets' growth will amount to 4.2 percent in 2016, down from 4.4 percent last year, while G20 developed countries are expected to grow 1.7 percent, down from last year's 1.9 percent, the agency said.
"The global recovery has weakened further and the outlook across countries remains uneven and largely weaker than in the previous two decades. Global trade remains subdued, while spillovers from emerging markets shocks to financial markets globally have increased substantially," Moody's Associate Managing Director Elena Duggar said...............................................Full Article: Source
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