L'édition 2025 d'ECO Tour offre une perspective unique de l'économie française, ancrée dans les dynamiques mondiales. Cette étude, réalisée par les experts de la Direction des Études Économiques du Crédit Agricole, combine une analyse macroéconomique globale avec un examen détaillé des secteurs clés en France.

Economic activity in France quickened in Q3 2024, with quarterly growth coming in at 0.4%, compared with 0.2% in Q1 and Q2. This uptick is explained by the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, estimated to have added 0.2 percentage points to Q3 growth. At the end of Q3, carry-over growth for 2024 was 1.1%. 

The economy is not expected to have grown at all in Q4 2024 due to the boost from the Paris...

The downward revision of our forecasts for the German economy is in line with the preliminary estimate of a 0.2% contraction in GDP in 2024. Activity in the first three quarters of 2024 was supported in particular by public consumption, despite limited budgetary resources. Household consumption, on the other hand, weighed on growth. Households switched to savings because of low consumer confidence in a...

Facing the relative slowdown in the US economy, growth in the Eurozone accelerated slightly over the summer, although still at a much lower rate than in the United States (0.9% year-on-year).

The upturn in household consumption seen over the summer bodes well for slightly stronger growth next year. The latest information on investment does not plead in favour of a marked acceleration. We have revised our...

The UK economy is on course to slow sharply in H2-24. Real GDP was stable in Q3 against our expectation for an increase (0.3% QoQ) after 0.4% QoQ in Q2. Business surveys deteriorated during Q4. Furthermore, financial conditions have tightened since the Autumn Budget 2024 and quite meaningfully so since the beginning 2025: gilt yields have risen sharply (around 60bp since October) and sterling has...

The Spanish economy managed to maintain a robust growth rate until Q3 2024 despite multiple headwinds, including weakness in the eurozone economies, persistently high inflation and the impact of past interest rate hikes. Behind this good performance are several key factors, including the solid performance of the labour market, continued high immigration and positive international tourism data, which once...

Plus que jamais, les perspectives sont conditionnées par la tournure que prendront la géopolitique et la politique économique américaines. Les hypothèses émises sur l'ampleur et le calendrier des mesures qui seront prises par la nouvelle administration conduisent à tabler, aux États-Unis, sur la résistance de l'économie, mais aussi sur un regain d'inflation, un assouplissement monétaire modeste et des...

More than ever, the outlook depends on the turn taken by US geopolitical and economic policy. Assumptions about the scale and timing of the measures to be taken by the new administration mean that, in the US, the economy is likely to remain resilient, but there will also be renewed inflation, modest monetary easing and upward pressure on long-term interest rates. Moreover, these measures are only one...

Against an extremely tense international backdrop, drawing up an economic and financial scenario is rather fraught task. There are many sources of potential disruption on the short term, including the US election, the Middle East conflict and the war in Ukraine, where tensions are at a peak. In particular, the risk that Middle East tensions will spread is sowing uncertainty on the oil market. Moreover...

Alors que la situation internationale est extrêmement tendue, dessiner un scénario économique et financier est assez "périlleux". Des élections américaines à la guerre au Liban, sans omettre le front ukrainien installé sur une crête d’extrême tension, les sources de "disruption" potentielle à brève échéance sont multiples. Les risques d’un conflit généralisé au Moyen-Orient soulèvent, en particulier, de...