The U.S. has seen stronger business investment in the second quarter and resilient consumption growth amid a tight labor market, the IMF said.
The International Monetary Fund raised its U.S. growth projection for this year by 0.3 percentage points compared with its July update, to 2.1%.The U.S. has seen stronger business investment and resilient consumption, the IMF's World Economic Outlook says, while euro zone economies have diverged under pressure from higher interest rates.The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday released its latest World Economic Outlook, which revised its forecast for U.S.
Its euro area growth forecast for 2023 was revised down by 0.2 percentage points to 0.7%, meanwhile, and for 2024 was lowered by 0.3 percentage points to 1.2%.It attributed the U.S. upgrade to stronger business investment in the second quarter, resilient consumption growth amid a tight labor market, and an expansionary government fiscal stance.
Its growth forecast for the United Kingdom was brought slightly higher to 0.5% for 2023, but lowered by 0.4 percentage points to 0.6% for 2024 as it expects"lingering impacts of the terms-of-trade shock from high energy prices." "Several headwinds to global growth subsided earlier this year," the IMF's outlook said, as the World Health Organization said Covid-19 was no longer a global health emergency, supply chains largely normalized, and global financial conditions eased after