2 hours, 34 minutes ago (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has trimmed its forecasts for 2008 and 2009 world economic growth, largely due to a marked worsening in the outlook for the euro zone, a G20 finance official told Reuters on Monday.With a sharp U.S. economic slowdown starting to spill out into other regions, the official said the IMF had downgraded its world growth forecast for this year to 3.9 percent, down from 4.1 percent in its World Economic Outlook last month.
It projects 2009 growth of 3.7 percent, down from 3.9 percent, in a note prepared for a meeting of deputy finance ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) emerging and industrialized economies to be held in Rio de Janeiro on August 30.
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