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The Italian economy grew just 0.1 percent in the third quarter of this year from the previous three months as industrial output stagnated, the Bank of Italy estimated on Friday. Recent data has pointed to slowing activity in the euro zone's third largest economy, and this month the government revised down the official estimate for 2018 growth to 1.2 percent from a 1.5 percent projection made in April.
The faltering economy was one reason given by the ruling coalition for presenting an expansionary 2019 budget that has riled the European Commission, which says it will push up Italy's mammoth public debt. "The available cyclical indicators suggest that in the third quarter, gross domestic product growth slowed to about 0.1 percent compared with the previous quarter," the Bank of Italy said in its quarterly economic bulletin. Italy posted growth of 0.2 percent in the second quarter, and a 0.1 percent rate in the third would be the slowest since the second quarter of 2016.
Italy has been under financial market pressure since the new government of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League took office in June, and a sell-off of government bonds has accelerated in the last few days.

Copyright Reuters, 2018

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