Economy returned to growth at start of yr - BoI

(ANSA) - Rome, April 18 - The Italian economy returned to growth at the start of the year, the Bank of Italy said Thursday. "According to our estimates in the winter months economic activity started growing again," the central bank's economic bulletin said.
    The bulletin spoke of a "slight recovery" from the technical recession in the second half of 2018, the report said.
    "The modest drop in employment, which in the autumn quarter reflected a phase of cyclical weakness, appears not to have continued in the two-month period of January and February".