Kæmpe fald i den europæiske industriproduktion i marts 2016, viser nye data.
Aktiemarkedet tordner frem på baggrund af de svage økonomiske nøgletal, der kan indikerer, at den europæiske centralbank bliver tvunget til at træde endnu mere på speederen til seddelpressen og andre planøkonomiske stimulanser, Nærmer vi os helikopter money til folet for at stimulere den skrantende økonomi.
Monthly comparison by main industrial grouping and by Member State The decrease of 0.8% in industrial production in the euro area in March 2016, compared with February 2016, is due to production of non-durable consumer goods falling by 1.9%, capital goods by 1.1%, intermediate goods by 0.8% and durable consumer goods by 0.4%, while production of energy rose by 2.0%. In the EU28, the decrease of 0.5% is due to production of non-durable consumer goods falling by 1.4%, both intermediate and capital goods by 0.7% and durable consumer goods by 0.5%, while production of energy rose by 1.7%. Among Member States for which data are available, the largest decreases in industrial production were registered in Ireland (-11.2%), Lithuania (-3.5%) and Estonia (-3.3%), and the highest increases in Croatia (+5.0%), Latvia (+4.3%), the Czech Republic (+1.4%) and Spain (+1.3%).