{"id":426000,"date":"2026-01-30T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/01\/france-q4-preliminary-gdp-0-2-vs-0-2-q-q-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:40:17","slug":"france-q4-preliminary-gdp-0-2-vs-0-2-q-q-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/01\/france-q4-preliminary-gdp-0-2-vs-0-2-q-q-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"France Q4 preliminary GDP +0.2% vs +0.2% q\/q expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +0.5%<\/li>\n<li>GDP +1.1% vs +1.2% y\/y expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The headline reading meets estimates as the French economy grew slightly in the final quarter of last year. Overall, French GDP expanded by 0.9% in 2025 and that&#8217;s a slight decline from the 1.1% growth seen in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking at the breakdown for the year, household consumption posted a modest growth of 0.4% on the year with the final quarter coming in strong as well with a 0.3% jump. Total government expenditure was up 1.7% on the year with imports up 2.9% while exports were up 1.4% in terms of overall growth contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">In terms of actual percentage contributions, internal demand excluding inventory changes accounted for 0.7% of GDP growth. Meanwhile, inventory changes itself also accounted for 0.7%. The offsetting line was net foreign trade, which subtracted 0.5% from GDP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Here&#8217;s the full breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.5% GDP +1.1% vs +1.2% y\/y expected Prior +0.9% The headline reading meets estimates as the French economy grew slightly in the final quarter of last year. Overall, French GDP expanded by 0.9% in 2025 and that&#8217;s a slight decline from the 1.1% growth seen in 2024. Looking at the breakdown for the year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}