High inflation, rather than ‘temporary factors’ or the euro-zone debt crisis, seems to have been the key driver of the economy’s shift from stagnation to contraction in the fourth quarter. While at this early stage we would not want to rule out the possibility of positive GDP growth in Q1 entirely, we think it more likely that further quarters of contraction lie ahead.
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