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Standard Chartered raises China 2025 GDP growth forecast to 4.8% from 4.5%

BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 04/02/25 01:16 AM EDT

BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - Standard Chartered on Wednesday revised its 2025 economic growth forecast for China to 4.8% from 4.5%, given "stronger-than-expected" real activity performance in the first two months and the March PMI survey.

The bank said China's real gross domestic product growth likely moderated to 5.2% year-on-year in the first quarter from 5.4% in the fourth quarter last year. (Reporting by Ellen Zhang and Ryan Wo; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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