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...The balance of trade in goods for the single currency zone reached a surplus of €28bn in January, its highest level since the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat started tracking the data in 2002....
...One worrying sign for rate-setters was that on a month-by-month basis, consumer prices in the single currency bloc rose 0.8 per cent in March, an acceleration from 0.6 per cent the previous month....
...The balance of trade in goods for the single currency zone reached a surplus of €28bn in January on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis, its highest level since the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat started...
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...While the Polish central banker has in the past been outspoken in his criticism of the euro, he told the FT that Poland might be ready to join the single currency in about a decade, once its gross domestic...
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...Within the overall figures, a deeper downturn in French and German business activity offset an improvement in the rest of the single currency zone, which returned to modest growth....
...Price data for the eurozone to be published on Thursday is expected to show inflation in the single currency bloc slowed to 2.8 per cent in January — down from 2.9 per cent the previous month....
...consumers reined in their spending in the run-up to Christmas as the value of retail sales fell 0.3 per cent in November compared with the previous month, pointing to continued economic weakness across the single-currency...
...separate data published on Monday showing eurozone industrial production fell for the third consecutive month in November, economists said the German figures pointed to a likely contraction in the wider single...
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