Germany, ECB suffer eurozone gloom
Region's growth stalled in Q2, inflation slowed to weakest level in nearly five eyars
Frankfurt
A RAFT of grim eurozone data last week alarmed financial markets and placed both Germany's doctrine of budgetary rigour and European Central Bank's monetary policy in the hot seat.
A seemingly never-ending stream of gloomy numbers sent the stock markets into a tailspin and exposed the fault lines in economic thinking across the 18-country euro area.
ECB chief Mario Draghi insisted that growth depends on reforms by governments, but also sent a strong signal that the central bank could ramp up stimulus for the economy.
"We a…
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