Sweden's economy expanded for the second straight month in April, and industrial production growth quickened to the strongest level in seven months, separate reports from Statistics Sweden showed on Wednesday.
Gross domestic product advanced 0.5 percent monthly in April, slower than the 1.5 percent rise in March.
The overall growth was relatively broad-based, with increases in production in general government as well as across both goods- and service-producing industries, with particularly high growth rates seen for industrial production, Mattias Kain Wyatt, an economist at Statistics Sweden, said.
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