Europe. (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Economic outlook. Volume 38:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: Economic forecasting -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1964 -- Periodicals; 330.94100112
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-0319.12109
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-489X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>The Eurozone economy may have lost some momentum in the course of Q2, based on business surveys for the period. Admittedly, the falls in the composite PMI in May and June were pretty small and on past form the PMIs still point to slightly stronger quarterly GDP growth than the 0.2% recorded in Q1. But given the sharp falls in German, French, Italian and Spanish industrial production in May and subdued Eurozone retail sales figures for the first two months of the quarter we suspect that Eurozone GDP growth is unlikely to have picked up in Q2…</p> </abstract>