Germany's growth forecast cut by Bundesbank

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Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, has cut its growth forecast for next year, saying the country's economy could already be shrinking.

Growth in 2013 is now expected to be just 0.4%, compared with a forecast in June of 1.6%, but is expected to bounce back to 1.9% in 2014.

It comes one day after European Central Bank president Mario Draghi cut his forecast for Eurozone growth.

Gilles Moec from Deutsche Bank said original growth forecasts had been "unrealistic".

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