Purchasing managers’ surveys for May suggest that conditions improved in Japan and the UK and that the deterioration in the euro-zone is not as steep as it was a few months ago. But these improvements have been partially offset by weaker growth in China and in some other emerging economies. As a result, we think global growth was probably no better than 3% in the second quarter.
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