Since major euro-zone economies are more globalised than most, they are more sensitive to turns in the global business cycle. This partly explains why, having outperformed in 2017, they have underperformed during the past year while growth in the US has been fairly resilient. We suspect that major euro-zone economies will continue to suffer more than most from slowing global demand.
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