There is much twaddle spoken about finance and economics. Take the eurozone growth figures released on Tuesday and the reaction in stock markets. For starters, it is flat out wrong to report that the economies of Germany and France did not contract in the second quarter – that the former expanded 0.3 per cent from April to June versus the first quarter while the latter remained flat was taken positively by markets. But these were preliminary data. The small print out of Germany’s federal statistics office admits provisional gross domestic product results can “fall below or exceed final results” by up to half a percentage point before the final numbers come in. Likewise, the Insee in Paris calculates that the average revision to its GDP data after three years is 0.3 percentage points.
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