Subscribe to Roula Khalaf’s Editor’s Digest and receive weekly newsletters packed with her favorite stories and insights from the world of finance and business. As the Editor of the FT, she brings you the latest developments in the French economy that exceeded expectations in the first quarter, showing a slight growth thanks to an increase in domestic consumption and investment. This positive trend sets the stage for the broader eurozone to begin recovering from its recent stagnation.
Economists had forecasted a growth of 0.1 percent, but the actual 0.2 percent growth in French GDP surpassed these predictions. The French economy’s performance is a sign that inflation rates are decreasing and wages are starting to rise, leading experts to predict that the eurozone as a whole will experience a modest growth this year. This is expected to lead to an increase in household spending power which will further drive economic expansion.
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