Daimler is now confidently predicting that lorry sales will grow by more than half by 2015 to some 3m vehicles.
Instead, the economy this year will grow by less than half a percent, after falling 3.2percentt in 1999.
The Fed now thinks the economy will grow by 1.8-2.5 1.8-2.5ear, half a percentage point less than it had expected in June.Industrial output in America fell by 0.5% inext year.
By contrast, those aged over 40 will grow by 270m, or more than half, over the same period (with those aged 60 and older growing the fastest).
"This is a classic inventory cycle," said Neal M. Soss, an economist at Credit Suisse First Boston, who believes the economy will grow by about 1percentt in the first half of the year and about 3percentt in the second half.
The CSO reckons GDP will grow by 7.4% in 2014-15 in real terms, half a percentage point faster than in the previous year.
Smartphone sales will grow by nearly 30%, accounting for just under half of all mobile shipments, according to JPMorgan, a bank.
Consumption of wind and solar power will grow by 16%, but remain less than a half of one per cent of global energy use.Oil demand will increase by 1.7%, roughly the same as growth in production.
Sales will grow by around 10% in China, accounting for nearly half the rise in global sales in absolute terms.
