Revising up our euro-zone Q2 GDP forecast

The slump in euro-zone GDP in March and April was just as large as we had feared, but the subsequent recovery has been quicker than we expected. As a result, we now think that GDP probably contracted by “only” around 12.5% q/q in Q2, though the falls in France, Italy and Spain will have been larger.

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