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Euro-zone Retail Sales (July) & Final PMIs (Aug)

The recovery in euro-zone retail sales ended in July as sales fell slightly. And final PMIs for August suggest that the economy is growing only slowly, while Italy and Spain’s recovery may have gone into reverse. We suspect that euro-zone GDP will increase only marginally in the coming months.

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