Thursday, February 23, 2012

Markets Are Selling Off After The EU Slashes Its Eurozone Growth Forecast

Sam Ro

Markets moved up notably during the European trading after the Ifo Institute's German business confidence reading increased to a 7-month high, beating economists' expectations.

However, the Ifo release was followed by the EU who announced it now projected a recession for the Eurozone.  Specifically, they now see growth in the 17 country bloc shrinking by 0.3 percent in 2012 versus a previous expectation for 0.5 percent growth.

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