The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded economic growth for the Eurozone to 1.6 for 2019. weoupdatejan2019. But Japan is even worse at a forecast of 1.1% for 2019.
Russia is also forecast to be sub-2% as 1.6%.
The Eurozone and Japan are drunk as a skunk on global Central Bank zero interest rate policies.
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