{"id":44099,"date":"2014-05-15T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_euro-zone_economy_shows_weaker-than_-expected_expansion\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:45:08","slug":"wsj_euro-zone_economy_shows_weaker-than_-expected_expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44099","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Euro-Zone Economy Shows Weaker-Than -Expected Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The euro zone&#8217;s economy expanded at a weak pace last quarter despite a strong recovery in Germany, putting added pressure on the European Central Bank to enact fresh easing measures to prevent the region from sliding into a lengthy period of low inflation and economic stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>Gross domestic product grew 0.2% in the euro zone during the first quarter compared with the final three months of 2013, the European Union&#8217;s statistics agency Eurostat said Thursday, well short of the 0.4% quarterly gain expected by economists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/euro-zone-economy-shows-weaker-than-expected-expansion-1400145062\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The euro zone&#8217;s economy expanded at a weak pace last quarter despite a strong recovery in Germany, putting added pressure on the European Central Bank to enact fresh easing measures to prevent the region from sliding into a lengthy period<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44099\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,460,582,589,595,592,149,168,591,200,590,600,597,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}