Falling investment, inventories, stall euro zone recovery in Q2

(Reuters) - Falling investment and a drop in inventories kept euro zone gross domestic product flat in the second quarter against the previous three months despite growing household consumption and a positive contribution from trade, data showed on Friday.

Euro-Zone Consumption Gap Widens

The gap between individual consumption in Germany and those euro-zone countries pursuing austerity programs continued to widen last year, according to figures from the European Union's official statistics agency Wednesday.

Germany's Economic Growth Slows in 2013 as Euro-Zone Crisis Weighs

BERLIN--German economic growth slowed in 2013 amid uncertainty stemming from the euro-zone crisis, the federal statistics office Destatis said Wednesday.