European stocks will bounce

More monetary easing may do little to help the eurozone's ailing economy, but it is good news for European stocks.

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France's stocks have outstripped Germany's this year
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"The tables have turned" between Paris and Berlin, says Silvia Amaro on CNBC. With Europe's largest economy on the brink of recession, analysts are looking to France, a country with better demographics and a more robust reform agenda, to drive European growth.

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Alex is an investment writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2015. He has been the magazine’s markets editor since 2019. 

Alex has a passion for demystifying the often arcane world of finance for a general readership. While financial media tends to focus compulsively on the latest trend, the best opportunities can lie forgotten elsewhere. 

He is especially interested in European equities – where his fluent French helps him to cover the continent’s largest bourse – and emerging markets, where his experience living in Beijing, and conversational Chinese, prove useful. 

Hailing from Leeds, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester.