World Cup Diary: Spain’s Moment

Spain’s moment has finally arrived. The Germans trampled England and Argentina, but just couldn’t break through the Spaniards. It’s nice to see two teams that have never won get to the finals.

In the WSJ today, an article suggests that Europe will avoid a double-dip recession in 2010:

“A regular quarterly survey released Wednesday by Germany’s ifo, France’s INSEE and Italy’s ISAE institutes forecast that the gross domestic product growth rate would peak at 0.5% in the second quarter before slowing in the third and fourth quarters, to 0.3% and 0.2% respectively.”

All across, Europe can certainly use the breath of fresh air amidst the colossal gloom and doom!

This segment is a part in the series : World Cup Diary