CEOs Optimistic on Growth Despite Trump Trade Tensions, PwC says

Most chief executive officers expect global economic growth to accelerate this year despite growing trade tensions and the threat of higher tariffs in a Donald Trump presidency, a survey by PwC found.

Almost 60% of company leaders are optimistic about the global economic outlook, the professional services firm said Monday in a report coinciding with the World Economic Forum in Davos. That’s up from 38% a year earlier.

The mood among CEOs is better than it’s been in years, driven by optimism around new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, according to Mohamed Kande, PwC’s global chairman.

“The last ...