Davos CEOs more bullish in short-term, politics clouds future

A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey of nearly 1,400 CEOs released on Monday, on the eve of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, found that 29 percent expected global economic growth to pick up in 2017, up from only 27 percent last year. Last year's outlook was particularly gloomy due to two years of falling oil prices and slowing growth in China, as well as uncertainty about the next U.S. president, Bob Moritz, PwC's global chairman, told Reuters. Although Donald Trump's election is a dra