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Recovery in world trade losing steam

Today’s CPB Trade Monitor shows that global trade slipped back in January. The weakness should be short-lived but the recovery from now on will be slow and a hard slog. We believe that GDP growth in the major economies will disappoint in 2010-2011. Emerging markets will perform relatively well but their share of world GDP is still not big enough to compensate for the weakness elsewhere.

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