{"id":105957,"date":"2025-10-30T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:25:08","slug":"eurozone-economy-expands-0-2-in-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105957\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone economy expands 0.2% in third quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The Eurozone economy unexpectedly grew by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter, after French output expanded at the fastest pace since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter-on-quarter figure was better than the 0.1 per cent growth expected by economists in a poll by LSEG. <\/p>\n<p>It came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/france\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>\u2019s statistical office Insee said earlier on Thursday that the Eurozone\u2019s second-biggest economy grew by a better than expected 0.5 per cent in the third quarter, despite the country\u2019s recent political turmoil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Germany and Italy failed to grow in the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Germany has now avoided a technical recession, the country has recorded 14 consecutive quarters of low growth, zero growth or economic contraction.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the protracted economic slump in Germany since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European Central Bank is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged at 2 per cent for the third meeting in a row when it announces its latest decision later on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bank economist Robin Winkler said the outlook for Germany in the fourth quarter was \u201cbetter\u201d as Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s debt-funded spending on defence and infrastructure is set to rise. New tax incentives for companies that have applied since July also \u201cappear to be having their first effects\u201d, Winkler said.<\/p>\n<p>The euro traded flat against the dollar at $1.162 after the data was released, up 0.2 per cent on the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-105957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}