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Sweden GDP (Q2)

The sharp contraction in the Swedish economy in Q2 confirms that it has not been immune to Covid, despite the government’s well-documented light-touch lockdown. Nonetheless, the economic crunch over the first half of the year was in a different league entirely to the horror shows in southern Europe.

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