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Recession sure, but eurozone analysts see green shoots too

AFP, Brussels
IS the eurozone locked into a prolonged recession set to run right through 2013? Or do the latest economic data actually indicate that the crisis-hit currency area is turning a corner?
With at least an outside chance that the region's jobless could cross the threshold of 18 million when up-to-date unemployment figures are issued next week, it might seem like an odd time for analysts to pose that question.
Like the eurozone's political leaders, they are to an extent divided — but keenly-watched growth statistics or indicators are increasingly being interpreted as evidence that austerity pain is starting to deliver long-term gain.
Late-August has seen the European Union announce that eurozone growth slipped back into reverse over the second quarter of 2012, with a 0.2-percent contraction -- but that the currency area also logged a record trade surplus (14.9 billion euros, or $18.4 billion) and bumper cash earnings from exports (12.7 billion euros) in the latest figures for June.
Subsequent commercial surveys of private business activity also gave mixed signals, with a seventh monthly decline in a row in August marked by the rate of contraction gathering pace in Germany — while easing in France.
Rob Dobson of research firm Markit said the latest snapshot from its regular Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) implied that the eurozone was facing a 0.5-0.6 percent drop in eurozone gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter.
That would meet the widely accepted definition of recession, two successive quarters of economic contraction, and Dobson warned that "it would take a substantial bounce in September to change this outlook."
He said Germany's "export engine has slammed into reverse gear," despite what Julian Callow of Barclays called a "significant depreciation" in the euro's effective exchange rate, an annualised eight percent when measured against a trade-weighted index.
Slowing Chinese imports holds the key on that front despite sharply improved export performance over the past year for weaker Mediterranean economies, and Julien Manceaux of ING Bank said the PMI data "confirms that the decline in eurozone GDP in the second quarter is likely to be the first leg of a technical recession."
More and more of these number-crunchers, though, say a way through the crisis maze is opening up.
Christian Schulz of Germany's Berenberg Bank says the data pattern confirms that "by tackling internal imbalances through structural reforms and front-loaded austerity, the 17 (eurozone) countries are becoming more competitive on the global stage.