Sun Peaks Through Clouds In Europe

If you've spent the past several months scouring the globe for economic "green shoots", Europe hasn't been particularly fertile ground. The European economy is on the front lines of the global slowdown thanks in no small part to a deep manufacturing slump in Germany, which is itself a product of external demand worries tied to China and Brexit, among other things. Earlier this month, Berlin slashed its growth target for the year to just 0.5%, which looked particularly horrendous compared to the