PARIS, May 6 - Following are economists' reactions to data issued on Tuesday by national statistics office INSEE showing total industry demand is expected to worsen in the second quarter.
GUILHEM SAVRY, ECONOMIST, CDC IXIS
"The trend confirms our forecasts in terms of economic activity. We will have a quite good first quarter as a correction of a slow the activity in the last quarter of 2002 because of a series of bank holidays. "But the second quarter will be bad because of the rise of the euro, geopolitical tensions and no real rebound in the US."//