{"id":3106,"date":"2015-06-24T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2015-06-24T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:38:45","slug":"french-business-index-at-highest-since-2011-as-economy-picks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/french-business-index-at-highest-since-2011-as-economy-picks-up\/","title":{"rendered":"French Business Index at Highest Since 2011 as Economy Picks Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The French economy gained further growth momentum in June, driven by a stronger service-sector performance and a stabilization in manufacturing,&#8221; said Jack Kennedy, an economist at Markit. &#8220;With service-sector business expectations standing at the highest level for over three years, it seems firms are becoming increasingly optimistic of a convincing upturn in activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The data &#8220;bode well&#8221; for second-quarter gross domestic product, following the 0.6 percent expansion in the first quarter, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Markit will publish its measures for the 19-nation euro-area at 9 am London time. The region&#8217;s composite index is forecast to have slipped to 53.5 from 53.6 in May, according to a survey of economists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-06-23\/french-business-index-at-highest-since-2011-as-economy-picks-up\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The French economy gained further growth momentum in June, driven by a stronger service-sector performance and a stabilization in manufacturing,&#8221; said Jack Kennedy, an economist at Markit. &#8220;With service-sector business expectations standing at the highest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}