Economics

Europe’s Recovery at Risk From Covid Wave, Inflation Pressure

  • Composite PMI rose to 55.8 in November; analysts estimated 53
  • Price pressure is ‘far above anything previously witnessed’
Visitors at a Christmas market in Frankfurt, Germany.Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg
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Euro-area business activity unexpectedly quickened, though the region’s recovery faces headwinds from a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections and “record inflationary pressures.”