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Eurostats is trumpeting their 1st Quarter GDP growth of 0.5% as being 'more than the US'.

According to Eurostats data, the US economy grew at 0.2% in the 1st Quarter.

0.2% folks - and likely to be correct, as the US probably pumped up their figure by more than 3+ times to arrive at...... 0.7%

http://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...1/news-story/eae4b6f5d46677644f623407ecd5f95e

Eurozone growth 0.5%, more than US in Q1

The 19-country eurozone economy grew by a steady, if unspectacular, quarterly rate of 0.5 per cent in the first three months of the year, official figures show.
The update from Eurostat, the EU's statistics agency, also confirmed that the eurozone performed better than the US in the first quarter. The US economy, according to Eurostat, expanded by 0.2 per cent.