Data last week brought perhaps the firmest signs yet that the slowdown in euro-zone economic activity has spread to the region’s core. With exports weakening in response to slowing world demand and consumers’ real incomes growth remaining subdued, hopes that Germany might support the periphery and shield the euro-zone as a whole from a marked economic slowdown seem misplaced.
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