BofA cuts 2020 global GDP forecast
|Bank of America (BofA) has cut its forecast for global economic growth to 2.2% for 2020 from 2.8% estimated earlier, as noted by popular analyst Holger Zschaepitz.
The coronavirus outbreak outside China is expected to slice 0.4% off the US and Eurozone gross domestic product (GDP) and 0.6% off China's GDP, according to the investment bank.
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Risks remain very much to the downside.
In "moderate recession" scenario growth is just 1.4% globally.
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