The International Monetary Fund is growing more pessimistic about the global economy. The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook trimmed its global growth forecast for this year by 0.2 percentage points and 0.1 percentage point next year, compared with the organization’s view from July.
That means global economic growth is expected to fall to 3 percent rate this year. That would be the slowest pace since the 2008 financial crisis, and down from a 3.8 percent pace seen in 2017.
Global trade growth reached just 1 percent in the first half of 2019, the weakest level since 2012. After expanding by 3.6 percent in 2018, the IMF now projects global trade volume will increase just 1.1 percent in 2019, which is 1.4 percentage points less than it forecast in July.
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