Euro-Zone Growth Continues to Lag in 2Q
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The euro-zone economy grew by 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2004, a touch slower than in the first three months of the year, according to initial estimates released Tuesday by the European Union.
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The economy is still caught between slowing growth and stubborn inflation pressures, new government reports showed yesterday.
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The European Central Bank has left interest rates in the eurozone unnchanged for the sixteenth consecutive month. Despite a slowdown in the 12-nation zone, the bankers today (Thursday) decided not to adjust the rate of 2%.
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Growth in the US economy this year is likely to be 4.3%, the OECD forecast today, lowering an earlier forecast of 4.7%. But the Japanese economy was set to grow by 4.4% instead of 3% forecast earlier and the euro zone by 2% instead of 1.6%.
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The European Central Bank leaves eurozone interest rates on hold at 2%, and upgrades its economic growth forecasts.
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The euro zone continues to experience a jobless recovery, with no indication that new jobs are being created after more than a year of generally sluggish economic growth.
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European Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing has said the slowing of euro zone economic growth in the third quarter was temporary and he expects growth rates to pick up again.
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Euro zone economic growth slumped to its slowest pace for more than a year in the third quarter, prompting economists to warn the European Central Bank (ECB) against any monetary tightening in the near term.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy, struggling under the weight of a bloated trade deficit, grew at a relatively modest 2.8 percent annual rate in the second quarter, a slower pace of expansion than previously thought...
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The German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, nearly came to a standstill in the third quarter as exports, previously the main driving force behind growth, slumped on the back of slowing global growth, official figures showed.
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The European Central Bank will cut  its euro zone economic growth forecasts for the next two years  when official projections are released on Thursday, a monetary  source told Reuters.
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The euro edged lower against the dollar on Friday after weaker-than-expected euro zone manufacturing data for September dragged the currency from a fresh record high.
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The euro-zone economy slowed more sharply than previously estimated during the second quarter and may not gather new momentum before the end of the year, according to figures released by the European Union&#39;s statistics agency Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The euro zone continues to experience a jobless recovery, with no indication that new jobs are being created after more than a year of generally sluggish economic growth.
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The economy grew at a sluggish 2.2 percent pace in the final quarter of last year, much slower than initially reported, in a kind of unusually large downward revision that has happened only seven times in the last 30 years.
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The euro backtracked further from recent record highs as markets weighed prospects of central bank intervention on the foreign exchange market to slow the single currency's rise.
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The European Central Bank will probably keep its benchmark interest rate at 2 percent this week amid evidence that economic growth in the 12-nation region is slowing, 40 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News said.