Europe Flash PMI Better, Not Fabulous

While today's better than expected rise in the flash PMI indicator (black line) for the euro zone is a welcome surprise, it would seem that it will take quite a bit more improvement before we can reasonably expect substantial progress in the recovery of important metrics such as GDP or industrial production:

 
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By country, France continues to lag behind Germany:
 
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