Business activity collapses across Europe as coronavirus lockdowns spread

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Euro zone business activity collapses in March as coronavirus spreads: PMI

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But with businesses shuttered across the region, Purchasing Managers’ Indexes compiled by IHS Markit slumped to record lows in March and suggested it could be months before things returned to any semblance of normalcy. “We think that GDP across the euro zone will fall even more quickly in Q2 than the surveys suggest. We estimate that while lockdowns are in place, output will be at least 25% below its normal level.”

Already teetering on recession before the coronavirus outbreak, Italy saw its services PMI dive to 17.4 while the new business index sank to 13.8. Economists now forecast a severe recession in the euro zone’s third largest economy this year.

 

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The economic crisis, not the virus itself, will bring to the death of modern Europe. Tough times ahead...

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