French GDP accelerates in the third quarter of 2025 (+0.5% after +0.3%)

The gross domestic product (GDP) was unchanged (0.0%) in the 3rd quarter of 2025 compared with the 2nd quarter of 2025 - after adjustment for price, seasonal and calendar variations – following a decrease (by a revised -0.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2025 from the previous quarter; previously: -0.3%). Based on the provisional results available, gross fixed ...

In the third quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the second quarter of 2025, GDP had increased by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU. ...

Japan's economic growth is likely to be modest, as trade and other policies in each jurisdiction lead to a slowdown in overseas economies and to a decline in domestic corporate profits and other factors, although factors such as accommodative financial conditions are expected to provide support. Thereafter, Japan's economic growth rate is likely to rise, with overseas economies returning to a moderate growth path. The year-on-year rate of increase in the consumer price index (CPI, all items less fresh food) is likely to decelerate to a level below 2 percent through the first half of fiscal 2026, with the waning of the effects of the rise in food prices, such as rice prices. Meanwhile, underlying CPI inflation is likely to be sluggish, mainly affected by the growth pace of the economy. Thereafter, since it is projected that a sense of labor shortage will grow as the economic growth rate rises and that medium- to long-term inflation expectations will rise, it is expected that underlying CPI inflation and the rate of increase in the CPI (all items less fresh food) will increase gradually and, in the second half of the projection period, be at BOJ QUARTERLY REPORT: UNDERLYING CONSUMER INFLATION LIKELY TO STAGNATE ON SLOWING GROWTH, BUT INCREASE GRADUALLY THEREAFTER UNDERLYING CONSUMER INFLATION LIKELY TO BE AT LEVEL GENERALLY CONSISTENT WITH 2% TARGET IN SECOND HALF OF PROJECTION PERIOD FROM FISCAL 2025 THROUGH 2027…