Euro-zone set for healthy Q1 despite weak industry

The strength of economic survey indicators in Q1 has not yet been reflected in either the retail sales or industrial production data. But construction appears to have boomed and car registrations, which help to gauge non-retail consumer spending trends, have also been unusually strong. In all, then, the euro-zone economy seems to have had a healthy Q1.

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