Cargo trains stand on the railway tracks at a transshipment station in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, as in background can be seen the city’s skyline, on January 23, 2024.

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The euro zone economy stabilized in the fourth quarter of 2023, flash figures published by the European Union’s statistics agency showed on Tuesday.

The bloc narrowly avoided the shallow recession that was forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, following a 0.1% fall in GDP in the third quarter.

The euro zone’s seasonally-adjusted GDP was flat compared with the previous quarter and expanded by 0.1% versus the previous year. In a preliminary estimate, the euro area was seen posting 0.5% growth over the whole of 2023.

Its biggest economy, Germany, posted a 0.3% contraction in the final quarter of the year, according to figures also out on Tuesday. The country has narrowly skirted a technical recession due to an upwards revision to its reading for the third quarter, when the economy stagnated.

The European Central Bank has hauled interest rates to a record high over the last year and a half, creating tighter financial conditions across the region which have helped cool inflation from a peak of 10.6% in October 2022 to 2.9% in December. The latest euro zone inflation flash figures are due Thursday.

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