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Households have financial assets worth €6.3 trillion
17.01.2020 DE
The financial assets of households in Germany increased by €67 billion in the third quarter of 2019 and now amount to roughly €6.3 trillion. These financial assets consist, in particular, of low-risk assets like currency, deposits and claims on insurance corporations and pension funds.
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German economy expands for tenth consecutive year
16.01.2020 DE
Initial figures from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) indicate that the German economy expanded for the tenth consecutive year in 2019. However, momentum has tailed off: GDP growth was only 0.6% on the year, following a year-on-year uptick of 1.5% in 2018.
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Households expecting just a moderate rise in inflation
17.12.2019 DE
The inflation expectations of German consumers are relatively well-anchored, a Bundesbank pilot survey of households in Germany between April and June 2019 has found.
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Corporations earned an average of 4.2 cent on each euro of sales in 2018
16.12.2019 DE
In 2018, German enterprises operating outside the financial sector earned 4.2 cent on each euro of sales. According to the current December edition of the Monthly Report, this figure was 4.8 cent in 2017.
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Bundesbank forecast: Germany economy to emerge from lull
13.12.2019 DE
Economic activity in Germany is likely to gradually pick up momentum again, according to the Bundesbank’s latest forecast. Alongside the greatly supportive fiscal policy and highly expansionary monetary policy, this is chiefly due to a rebound in export growth following an extended period of weakness.
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The current figure
11.12.2019 DE
Since 2017, the Bundesbank has been upgrading its BPS 1120 cash processing machines to the new BPS M7 model. While the old model worked at a speed of 22 banknotes per second, the M7 can process 33 per second.
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Weidmann sees forward guidance as a success
In the view of Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, the ECB Governing Council’s forward guidance has contributed to lowering long-term interest rates and stimulating the euro area economy. However, at the 2019 European Banking Congress in Frankfurt, he also highlighted the risks and side effects of a highly expansionary monetary policy. ECB President Christine Lagarde called for increased public investment.
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2019 Financial Stability Review: Germany’s financial system remains vulnerable
Risks to the stability of Germany’s financial system have continued to build over the course of 2019.
“An unexpected economic downturn and abrupt rise in risk premia could hit Germany’s financial system hard,”
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250 young people come together to discuss digitalisation, sustainability and the future of Europe
19.11.2019 DE
On 15 and 16 November, the Bundesbank invited 250 motivated young people to its second Euro20+ event. Under the slogan “Your Europe. Your Future”, the participants came together to discuss key economic and social issues concerning the future of Europe and the euro area.
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Marginal growth in German economy
18.11.2019 DE
The German economy saw only marginal growth in the third quarter of 2019. According to the Bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report, this persistently weak growth – gross domestic product (GDP) was up by 0.1% on the preceding quarter – was due to the ongoing sluggishness in the export-oriented industrial sector.