Euro-zone output recovers, annual rate back above zero

Summary: Euro-zone industrial production increases in January; rise in contrast to expected fall; annual growth rate back above zero.   Following a recession in 2009/2010 and the debt-crisis which flowed from it, euro-zone industrial production recovered and then reached a peak four years later in early 2016. Growth rates then fluctuated through 2016/2017 before beginning a steady and persistent slowdown from the start of 2018. That decline was transformed into...

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