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Global finance chiefs less gloomy
Finance professionals across the world were more upbeat about the global economy’s prospects by the fourth quarter of last year, according to data out yesterday. Thirty per cent of respondents to a poll carried out by two accountancy bodies said the world was on its way to recovery, up one percentage point. But the optimists were still outweighed by more than double as many pessimists who thought the global economy would worsen.