German Investor Confidence Falls to Six-Month Low

German investor confidence declined for a third month in July as the euro area’s debt crisis and cooling global demand dimmed the economic outlook.

The ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim said its index of investor and analyst expectations, which aims to predict economic developments six months in advance, fell to minus 19.6 in July from minus 16.9 in the previous month. In the U.K., inflation dropped to the lowest in 2 1/2 years.