French GDP Grew in Third Quarter on Factory Output, Consumers
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French growth revived in the third quarter, buoyed by industrial production and consumer spending, before the onset of a slowdown that economists forecast may extend into next year.
Gross domestic product increased 0.4 percent from the second quarter, when it fell a revised 0.1 percent, the Paris-based statistics office, Insee, said today. Economists predicted growth of 0.4 percent, the median of 15 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey showed. Output was up 1.6 percent from the third quarter of 2010.