France outpaces Britain, Germany with fastest growth in two years

By Ingrid Melander and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Cheap oil and a weak euro helped France's economy expand at its fastest rate in two years in the first quarter as consumers spent more freely, but the growth pickup was not sharp enough to generate extra jobs. French exports slowed, however, and a depressed real estate market kept weighing on the euro zone's second-largest economy, the data from statistics office INSEE showed. "However, we still do not estimate that the recovery