Europe’s economic recovery slowed in the first weeks of March after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while U.S. business activity picked up, business surveys showed.
The war’s impact rippled quickly through Europe by disrupting already strained supply chains, weakening confidence and sending raw-material and energy prices soaring. The lifting of pandemic restrictions on Europe’s services sector is softening the blow for now. But economists expect this positive effect to fade and for the war to take a heavier toll on growth as higher energy costs push consumer prices up.
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