Allegra Stratton: Are Those Economic Green Shoots We Spy?

Forgive a quaint analogy (as well as a cliche, making this a double writing crime) but if I zoom in with my phone camera on the flower pots outside my...

By Allegra Stratton · Bloomberg

Forgive a quaint analogy (as well as a cliche, making this a double writing crime) but if I zoom in with my phone camera on the flower pots outside my front door, I can see the green shoots of tulips. Across the Bloomberg newsroom, we are doing the same thing: eyes narrowed, noses scrunched and faces pressed to screens while we parse different and, to be honest, far-from-clear economic data.