The IMF updates its World Economic Outlook

The IMF published, January 16, the update of its World Economic Outlook. Its projections did not change for the world GDP compared to last fall estimates. But, there are slight revisions for many countries. The IMF signals this in its introduction: "...there is a wide dispersion of possible outcomes around the projections, given uncertainty surrounding the policy stance of the incoming U.S. administration and its global ramifications."

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/update/01/

World economy: OECD leading economic indicators...

... point to a more rapid pace of growth in the coming months in most of its member countries and in some emerging economies. The IMF update of its World Economic outlook, due for publication in the coming days, will give us an idea of what to expect for 2017 and of the risks to global growth.


http://www.oecd.org/std/leading-indicators/OECD-CLI-01-17.pdf

Quebec economy: the DLI keeps sending positive signals

The Desjardins Leading Index (DLI) recent evolution lets believe, again, that Quebec'economy will keep its expansion trend in the coming months. The latest data on the DLI were published January 12 on the Desjardins web site.

World economy: a more vigorous expansion, according to PMI data

The world economy expansion was doing better at the end of 2016 than at the first semester, according to data published by IHS Markit January 5. The new orders subindex lets believe that this trend will continue in early 2017.

https://www.markiteconomics.com/Survey/PressRelease.mvc/2000e7986b9c40aca171c3d56afe1362