Today, Bloomberg published an article titled “Euro-Area Economy Shrinks Most Since Depths of Recession.”  The first lines reads “The euro-area recession deepened more than economists forecast with the worst performance in almost four years as the region’s three biggest economies suffered slumping output.”

Another notable excerpt:

Gross domestic product fell 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous three months, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said today. That’s the most since the first quarter of 2009 in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and exceeded the 0.4 percent median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey.

The article also mentions “shrinking” GDP in Japan and Portugal, as well as the economic outlook of various professional forecasters.

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