GDP growth forecasts for major European countries and the US have been revised downwards yet again, with France seeing the biggest change from last week.
Italy remains the country facing the largest slump, according to this week’s GlobalData forecasts. Its economy is expected to shrink 9.4 per cent during 2020.
France’s GDP is now expected to contact by 8.4 per cent, compared to last week’s estimate of 7.4 per cent.
The UK economy is expected to shrink by 7.6 per cent this year, Germany’s by 6.7 per cent and the US’s by 5.3 per cent.
Both China and India continue to be forecasted modest growths of 0.8 per cent and 1 per cent respectively.
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