Germany-France divergence looks set to last

Last week brought some good news about the euro-zone economy, with October’s composite PMI and EC ESI both pointing to an acceleration of growth. But both the hard data and survey indicators look much weaker for France than for Germany. And as the labour market is in relatively poor health and fiscal tightening will need to resume, we suspect that France’s underperformance will continue.

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