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Euro-Region Recovery Stalls as Biggest Economies Fail to Expand
The euro area’s recovery unexpectedly stalled in the second quarter as its three biggest economies failed to grow, underlining the vulnerability of the region to weak inflation and the deepening crisis in Ukraine. Gross domestic product in the three months through June was unchanged from the first quarter, when it increased 0.2 percent, Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg, said today. The median of 37 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey was for growth of 0.1 percent. In a separate report, the agency confirmed inflation at 0.4 percent in July. Economic stagnation, consumer-price growth ... (full story)
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