据William Horobin报道，法国工业产出在8月意外下滑，因电力产出收缩抵消了制造业的小幅回升。
French industrial production unexpectedly fell in August as a retrenchment in electricity offset a small pickup in manufacturing.
这0.3%的降幅反映了电厂产出较7月有所放缓，当时法国产出达到2021年以来的最高水平。根据彭博调查的中位数预测，经济学家原本预计会有小幅增长。这一下滑抵消了工厂0.3%的月度增幅。
The 0.3% decline reflected a wind-down at power stations compared with July, when the country saw the highest level of output since 2021.
这些数据凸显了欧元区第二大经济体在积累增长动力方面举步维艰。
Economists had predicted a small increase, according to the median prediction in a Bloomberg survey. The drop outweighed a 0.3% monthly gain for factories.
法国上半年仅勉强避免了衰退，现在面临逆风，源于对少数派政府能否遏制失控赤字的不确定性。
The numbers underscore how the euro area’s second-largest economy is struggling to build up momentum. France only narrowly avoided a recession in the first half of the year and now faces headwinds from uncertainty over whether the minority government can rein in a runaway deficit.
经济和财政挑战加剧了债券市场的抛售，推高法国相对于同行的借贷成本至欧元区债务危机以来未见的水平。
The economic and fiscal challenges have added fuel to a sell off on bond markets that’s pushed France’s borrowing costs compared to peers to levels not seen since the euro area’s debt crisis.
周二法国统计局公布的制造业详细数据显示，其他工业产品产出反弹1.2%。该类别包括冶金、化工和医药。
In the underlying manufacturing data from the French statistics agency on Tuesday, production of other industrial goods rebounded by 1.2%. That category includes metallurgy, chemicals and drugs.
周二德国单独公布的数据显示，工厂订单录得自1月以来最大降幅。
Separate numbers on Tuesday from Germany showed the biggest decline in factory orders since January.