Investment in industry should increase 12 per cent this year, according to the latest bullish assessment of industrial trends. Conducted by Insee, the officials statistics institute, the April survey shows a sharp 3 per cent improvement on the expectations of industrialists at the beginning of the year. This, and other anecdotal data, tend to overrule the slightly disappointing provisional assessment of first quarter growth...more

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