Global economic growth continued to cool in the fourth quarter of 2018, with aggregated growth hitting the lowest mark in two years. The global economy expanded 3.0% in the fourth quarter over the same period in the previous year according to an estimate produced by FocusEconomics. The print was a notch below the 3.1% expansion forecast in the previous month and Q3’s 3.1% increase.

SUMMARY 2 

CALENDAR 16 

UNITED STATES 18 

CANADA 36 

JAPAN 49 

BREXIT 64 

UNITED KINGDOM 67 

EURO AREA 83 

FRANCE 97 

GERMANY 109 

ITALY 123 

NOTES 136