The CEOs of America's biggest companies just lowered their economic growth forecast for the year

CEOs downgraded their economic outlook in the latest Business Roundtable survey. Here’s why.

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The group, whose chairman is J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, blamed tension with China and the stalled free-trade agreement with Mexico and Canada for its members' downbeat assessment. Senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross arrive for the first meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board with US President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 6, 2019.The chief executives of the nation's biggest companies downgraded their outlook for the U.S. economy amid uncertainty over the trade war and slowing global growth, according to a new survey released Wednesday.

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