Recent data shows the eurozone economy outpaced that of the U.S. for the second straight year in 2017, recording its strongest growth in a decade.<br /> The European Union's statistics agency said Tuesday that eurozone GDP rose two-point-five percent last year, far ahead of the one-point-eight percent reached a year earlier. <br />It's also the fastest growth rate since a three-point-zero percent rise in 2007, just before the financial crisis. <br />The data lends support to a rosy outlook given by the IMF last week, which said the global economy will expand three-point-nine percent this year and next. <br />The 2017 growth figures for the U.S. and China were two-point-three percent and six-point-nine percent, respectively. <br />
