Economist

Richard Iley

Macroeconomics

<div class="content-highlight">The global economy remains healthy, even robust. That is the clear message of the latest, recently released CPB data that show world trade volumes hit a fresh all-time high in July, surpassing the previous peak reached this March. </div>After a mild contraction in the first half of 2015 driven by China's industrial hard landing, world trade stabilised and then began to spurt higher from the second half of 2016, reaching a crescendo in Q1 this year.The sharp acceleration in world trade from mid-2016…

The global economy remains healthy, even robust. That is the clear message of the latest, recently released CPB data that show world trade volumes hit a fresh all-time high in July, surpassing the previous peak reached this March. After a mild contraction in the first half of 2015 driven by China's industrial hard landing, world trade stabilised and then began to spurt higher from the second half of 2016, reaching a crescendo in Q1 this year.The sharp acceleration in world trade from mid-2016…

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