Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
These are huge contractions in Europe, the largest in living memory in most
cases.
- KEN WATTRET,
- economist at BNP Paribas, on news that Germany's economy
suffered a record slide in the final quarter of 2008 and that France's shrank
at its fastest pace in 34 years, suggesting that already grim forecasts for the
euro-zone GDP could be too optimistic