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A brighter outlook, and higher growth forecasts

Upbeat economic data for the first quarter of the year have prompted us to raise our forecasts for growth in several economies. But underlying wage and price pressures remain exceptionally low outside the US, meaning that central banks other than the Fed will be slow to withdraw policy stimulus.

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