The improvement in annual Swiss industrial production growth in Q4 suggests that the wider economy returned to positive quarterly growth at the end of last year. Nonetheless, while the data appear solid enough, they only add to the evidence that activity lost momentum into early 2019. Meanwhile, weaker-than-expected Swedish inflation data released on Tuesday suggest that the chance of interest rates rising this year is increasingly remote.
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