The French economy is on course to avoid a recession this year while inflation pressures ease though growth and will only gradually pick up in the coming two years, the central bank forecast on Wednesday. In its quarterly outlook, the Bank of France said the euro zone's second-biggest economy would grow 0.1% in the current quarter from the previous three months and 0.2% in both the third and fourth quarters. The meant that for the whole of 2023 the economy was set to grow 0.7%, the central bank said, marginally revising upward a previous forecast of 0.6% as Europe's energy crisis f...