Passage: The national statistics institute INSEE said Tuesday that the French economy should expand by 2.1 percent this year, thanks to a rebound in the fourth quarter, and appeared likely to resist a slowdown in global momentum expected in early 2007. INSEE economist Eric Dubois said the stagnation in the French economy in the third quarter was a surprise and should be corrected by growth of 0.9 percent in the final three months of the year, powered by a pickup in the manufacturing industry.
What event has already finished? What event has begun but has not finished? What will happen in the future? What may happen in the future thanks to the rebound in the fourth quarter? What happened before the rebound in the fourth quarter? What happened to cause the surprise? What should happen after the surprise? What may have happened before the surprise? What happened after the surprise?