{"id":429984,"date":"2026-04-30T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/france-q1-preliminary-gdp-0-0-vs-0-2-q-q-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:40:05","slug":"france-q1-preliminary-gdp-0-0-vs-0-2-q-q-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/france-q1-preliminary-gdp-0-0-vs-0-2-q-q-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"France Q1 preliminary GDP 0.0% vs +0.2% q\/q expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The French economy stagnates in the first quarter of the year and that&#8217;s not a great sign, even if conditions in March was weakened by the Middle East conflict. Surging energy prices will continue to have a stronger impact in April and that will leave a bigger market on the economy in Q2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Considering the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and energy price disruptions are still playing out, this definitely threatens a possible technical recession for this year. Every passing day that the war continues, the impact on the euro area economy will just continue to grow exponentially. Trouble, trouble.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.2% The French economy stagnates in the first quarter of the year and that&#8217;s not a great sign, even if conditions in March was weakened by the Middle East conflict. Surging energy prices will continue to have a stronger impact in April and that will leave a bigger market on the economy in Q2. [&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-429984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429984","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=429984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}