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Tentative signs of improvement

Recent months have seen a small, but encouraging, improvement in some euro-zone activity indicators, particularly in the peripheral economies like Greece. However, in most cases, those indicators remain consistent with very weak growth, if not deep recessions. As such, they will need to rise considerably further to suggest that the euro-zone and, in particular, its most vulnerable economies have truly turned a corner.

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