Morning Market Commentary – GDP improvements, US$ Weakening

More support for global equities due to slowly but gradually improving global economic expectations and economic outlook.

GDP in the Euro area as a whole, we think might surprise on the upside and are expecting a +0.2% GDP number for 2013, and +1.0% GDP for 2014, as we are seeing more evidence of government policies in Europe, but also around the world starting to make progress, and hence why we are expecting for global GDP growth to accelerate in 2014, albeit slowly for Europe, the UK, the US, but more rapidly in Japan, China, India, Africa, Brazil, Russia and emerging economies like the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, Poland.

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