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Europe's Economies and Markets Have Divorced
Megan Greene Ticker on disconnect between Europe's real economy and markets.
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Eurostat has released preliminary first-quarter growth figures, and they aren't pretty, underscoring the massive disconnect between the real economies and markets in Europe.
In the euro area, the country growing fastest was Slovakia, at 0.3 percent compared with the previous quarter, followed by Germany and Belgium at a whopping 0.1 percent. France, meanwhile, went into a triple-dip recession, with gross domestic product falling 0.2 percent.
