German Investor Expectations Improve Again
- ZEW expectations index rises to 9.8; economists anticipated 5
- Data suggest that economy has ‘bottomed out,’ Wambach says
Germany is at risk of a shallow downturn after output shrank 0.1% in the three months through September.
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Germany’s investor outlook improved for a fourth month, signaling hope that Europe’s biggest economy may be stabilizing as inflation retreats.
An expectations index by the ZEW institute rose to 9.8 in November from -1.1 in October — better than economists had predicted in a Bloomberg survey. A measure of current conditions was little changed at -79.8.