Fitch Ratings sees world growth slowing to 2.3% this year amid global trade war

Fitch Ratings believes the Fed will delay further easing until the fourth quarter of 2025 — Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR: Fitch Ratings expects world growth to slow to 2.3 per cent this year, "well below trend” and down from 2.9 per cent in 2024, particularly after the new US administration sparked a global trade war.    

It noted that the slower world growth marked a 0.3 percentage point (pp) downward revision, "reflecting broad-based reductions in developed and emerging economies. Growth will remain weak at 2.2 per cent in 2026,” the rating agency said in a statement yesterday.