Although January’s euro-zone industrial figures made disappointing reading, the recent weakness of the sector partly reflects a plunge in energy production. Encouragingly, orders data paint a more upbeat picture suggesting that better times may be ahead. Nonetheless, with external demand unlikely to pick up significantly this year, and the recent further appreciation of the euro likely to hamper the sector too, a period of robust industrial production growth seems unlikely.
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