Welp,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,There ya have it, from the horses mouth,,,,,,,
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/17/2012 21:15 -0500
Gross Domestic Product
India
Japan
Recession
World Bank
This will hardly be a surprise to anyone with 3 neurons to rub across their frontal lobe, but at least it is now official.
WORLD BANK CUTS GLOBAL GROWTH OUTLOOK, SEES EURO-AREA RECESSION
Bloomberg, which just released an embargoed summary of the World Bank action, summarizes it all.
World Bank cuts global growth forecast by most in 3 yrs as euro area recession threatens to exacerbate slowdown in emerging markets, World Bank says in Global Economic Prospects report.
Sees world economic growth of 2.5%, down from June est. of 3.6%
Sees euro area GDP contracting 0.3% in 2012, compared with pvs est. of 1.8% growth
World Bank estimates euro area entered recession in 4Q
U.S. outlook cut to +2.2% from +2.9%
Japan forecast cut to 1.9% growth from 2.6%
China’s GDP growth will slow to 8.4%, unchanged from interim revised projection released in Nov.
India forecast cut to 6.5% from 8.4%
And the punchline:
World Bank urges developing economies to “prepare for the worst” as it sees risk for European turmoil to turn into global financial crisis reminiscent of 2008
Even achieving much weaker outcomes is very uncertain
Morgan Stanley may want to revise their 37% Muddle Through probability outcome, to something more like 36.745% on this news.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/world-bank-cuts-economic-outlook-says-europe-recession-warns-developing-economies-prepare-worst?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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