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Steady GDP growth, the benefits of AI and overcoming the uncertainty swirling around Donald Trump’s tariffs.⁣ ⁣ The key headlines with the International Monetary Fund edging its 2026 global growth forecast higher as businesses and economies adapt to US tariffs and highlighting the ongoing AI investment boom.⁣ ⁣ In its World Economic Outlook update, the IMF forecasts global GDP growth at 3.3% for next year.⁣ ⁣ "We find that global growth remains quite resilient," IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said, adding that the Fund's 2025 and 2026 growth forecasts now exceed predictions made in October 2024, before Trump was elected to a second term.⁣ ⁣ "In a sense, the global economy is shaking off the trade and tariff disruptions of 2025 and is coming out ahead of what we were expecting before it all started."⁣ ⁣ He said businesses had adapted to higher US tariffs by rerouting supply chains, while trade agreements had lowered some duties and China had shifted exports to non-US mark...

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