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Euro zone stays on growth road, hitting occasional bump

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Surveys of purchasing managers’ plans in the euro zone
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Evidence built on Friday that the sturdy improvement in euro zone economic growth touted by the European Central Bank (ECB) is in place — albeit with some wobbles.
Cruising speed, not acceleration, Morgan Stanley economists said.
Surveys of purchasing managers’ plans in the euro zone, Germany and France all indicated steady growth, if not perhaps as much as some economists had expected.
The broadest of the managers’ surveys — IHS Markit’s June flash composite purchasing managers index (PMI) for the euro zone — dipped to 55.7 from 56.8 in May. This was lower than anyone in a Reuters economists’ poll had predicted but still way above 50, the level Markit says divides expansion from contraction.
“Businesses experienced the strongest quarter in six years,” Bert Colijn, ING senior economist for the euro zone, said in a note. “With just a week to go in this quarter, all signs are pointing toward a strong (growth) reading.”
At the country level, the most significant development may have been France’s manufacturing PMI, which rose far more than expected to 55, rising back after a dip in May possibly because the political risks around the presidential and legislative elections have gone.
Companies also took on workers at the fastest pace in nearly 10 years, a sub-index showed, giving France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, an early economic present.
Overall, however, the PMIs showed something of a tailing off of activity — primarily in services — even if that was within the context of expansion.
Germany’s composite index, for example, was down 1.3 points — from a six-year high — to a still solid 56.1.
The business data came on the heels of Thursday’s buoyant euro zone consumer sentiment report.
Here again, the news was relative. The actual number was minus 1.3 points, meaning that sentiment is negative. But that is usually the case with the euro zone, so the fact that there was a jump from -3.3 points in May to the highest level in 16 years was seen as a bullish sign.
“It all points to labor market wage growth and private consumption,” Berenberg economist Florian Hense said.
Other data on Friday, however, showed that the euro zone economy is not without its risks. Italy, the currency bloc’s third-largest economy, reported a sharp fall in industrial sales and orders in April.
The data, which matched industrial output figures released earlier in the month showing a surprise decline, suggests a poor start to the second quarter after 0.4 percent growth in the first.
Considered by many economists to be the weak link in the euro zone revival, Italy is facing an election next year at the latest, where the anti-euro, anti-establishment 5-Star Movement is currently seen making gains.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects Italy’s economy to grow 1.3 percent this year because of the general euro zone growth picture but to slow next year.
“Weak productivity and low aggregate investment remain key challenges for faster growth, held back by structural weaknesses, high public debt, and impaired bank balance sheets,” the IMF said this month in its latest report.

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