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Barclays: The European Economy Was Flying on Just One Engine in the Third Quarter

Domestic demand helped propel euro-area growth.

Consumption, consumption, consumption.

Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg
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Hopes for a euro boom in 2015 had to be tempered on Friday morning after the preliminary estimate for third-quarter growth in the area came in a tick below the consensus estimate.

A full breakdown of the contributions to growth across the eurozone won't be published until Dec. 8, but Barclays says all of that 0.3 percent quarter-over-quarter growth came from just one source.