Germany’s crippled industrial economy is leading the country’s GDP to a 0.2-percent contraction this year, the Bundesbank says, and a recovery will not begin until after the first quarter of 2025.
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CANADA’S ECONOMY STUMBLES IN THIRD QUARTER
Despite a growing population and three interest rate cuts by the central bank, Canada’s economy eked out only a 1-percent expansion in the third quarter, according to initial calculations among economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.
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GERMANY’S ECONOMY WILL END 2024 IN RECESSION
No surprise to Trends Journal subscribers. As forecast, Germany’s economy will contract 0.2 percent this year, officials now say, revising their earlier forecast of 0.3 percent overall growth. The economy shrank 0.3 percent in 2023.
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GERMAN ECONOMY CONTINUES ITS TAILSPIN
S&P Global’s purchasing managers index combining Germany’s goods and services sectors slipped to 48.5 in August from 49.1 in July, falling below economists’ forecasts.
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INVESTOR CONFIDENCE IN EUROZONE, ESPECIALLY GERMANY, COLLAPSES
In a new ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment, investors’ outlook for the Eurozone’s business future plunged 25.8 points to 17.9, the biggest one-month tumble since early in 2020 when the COVID War began.
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AUSTRALIA’S CENTRAL BANK WILL KEEP INTEREST RATES HIGH
In February, the Royal Bank of Australia (RBI) noted “encouraging signs” that inflation was waning and hinted at an interest rate cut by the end of this year.
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GLOBAL DEBT SETS NEW RECORD AT $315 TRILLION
In this year’s first quarter, nations took on another $1.3 trillion in debt, pushing the worldwide total to $315 trillion, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) reported.
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IMMIGRATION IS DRIVING GROWTH IN RICH COUNTRIES
“Exceptionally large” numbers of immigrants last year entering into Australia, Canada, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. “definitely” helped ease labor shortages and grow GDPs, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a study released last week.
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U.S. PRODUCTIVITY NOT SHINING BRIGHT
U.S. workers’ productivity in this year’s first quarter grew by a scant 0.3 percent, compared to 3.5 percent in the quarter before.
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GERMANY ENTERING RECESSION, DATA SHOWS; BANKS AT RISK
After flatlining in this year’s second quarter, Germany’s economy contracted 0.1 percent in the third. New data shows GDP continuing to decline, leading the country’s central bank to predict another three months of shrinkage.