IMF: Global Growth to Rise Slightly

International Monetary Fund Experts say the global economy will expand 3.5 percent this year, a very slight increase over last year's growth. The IMF's Olivier Blanchard says advanced economies like the United States will grow a little faster while emerging nations will expand a little more slowly. Blanchard says the economic picture is complicated by falling oil prices, large changes in currency exchange rates, and high levels of debt and other problems left over from the...

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