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Unemployment lower, inflation higher than expected

At the end of a data-heavy week, we have learnt that the euro-zone economy slumped as much as expected in Q1, but unemployment rose much less than anticipated in March. Meanwhile, the highlights of next week’s data releases are likely to be double-digit falls in both German industrial production and euro-zone retail sales for March.

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