March’s German Ifo supported other survey evidence that growth is accelerating sharply. The hard data so far paint a less positive picture, but the balance of evidence suggests that German growth this year will be stronger than the 1.3% that we had previously assumed. We have revised up our forecast to 1.8%.
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