US is back at helm of world economy as employment rises
America will expand by 3.2% or more this year, its best performance since at least 2005, according to economists
Washington
THE United States is back in the driver's seat of the global economy after 15 years of watching China and emerging markets take the lead.
The world's biggest economy will expand by 3.2 per cent or more this year, its best performance since at least 2005, as an improving job market leads to stepped-up consumer spending, according to economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co, Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas SA. That outcome would be about what each foresees for the world economy as a whole and would be the first time since 1999 that America hasn't lagged behind global growth, based on data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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