French economic growth is picking up and leading fund managers to go overweight the country in their...
French economic growth is picking up and leading fund managers to go overweight the country in their portfolios Fiona Stokes, investment manager at Britannia Asset Management, is confident that France's strong economy will continue to speed up and sees it as one of the few European countries that will see consistent economic growth in 1999 Second-quarter GDP in France surprised slightly on the upside, growing by 0.6% on the quarter and 2.1% on the year. Business confidence has shown a v-shaped recovery and is now consistent with 6% year-on-year manufacturing output growth Unemployment al...
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