French threw up a nasty surprise
Damir Sangolj/Reuters
This is below economic forecasts of a 0.5% expansion.
Meanwhile, manufacturing production contracted 1.1% year-on-year, much lower than the expected 1.2% rise. It's France's worst industrial contraction since 2014.
It mirrors Germany, whose industrial production contracted 1.3% in March. On the plus side, German exports enjoyed an uptick, rising 1.9%.
Germany's Economy Ministry remained positive, saying the export figures suggested things were looking up:
"The industrial sector has overcome its foreign trade related weak phase of the second half of 2015," it said. "The economic trend in the industrial sector is currently pointing upward."
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