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Business surveys highlight particular weakness of Italy

While business surveys have weakened throughout the euro-zone, they imply quite different things for growth in each economy. The Spanish surveys still bode well. But the German and French indicators are consistent with very slow growth while the Italian indices are clearly in recession territory.

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