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Zacks Investment Research | Feb 05, 2018 11:08PM ET
The global economy has been on a solid footing with a rise in commodity prices, recovery in investment, boom in manufacturing and strong trade. The World Bank expects global economy to expand 3.1% this year while International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects global growth of 3.9% — the fastest expansion since 2011. The IMF attributes half of the growth to the new tax legislation in the United States.
Amid surging global economic growth, investors are betting on an inflation comeback and the prospect of faster-than-expected monetary policy tightening. The cheap monetary policy era ended in Asia with South Korea becoming the first major central bank to increase interest rates for the first time in more than six years. The Bank of England, too, has raised interest rates for the first time in more than 10 years (read: Zacks Investment Research
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