« Home | FT.com: The Short View: Old Europe - John Authers » | WSJ.com: ECB Pumps Extra Funds Into Europe Bank Sy... » | Guardian: Average rate at ECB weekly tender hits 6... » | Washington Post: 'The Second World' - Empires and ... » | AFP: French President refuses to rule out Olympics... » | Guardian:: UK, France want action on credit crunch... » | NYT: Trans-Atlantic Flights - Getting to Europe Is... » | Te Korea Times: EU Proposes Growth Formula for Kor... » | Daily Times - Iraq: The Three Trillion Dollar War ... » | IHT: Paul Taylor writes: Is the EU friend or foe t... » 

Mar 26, 2008 

Forbes.com: Euro Pumped By Strong German Data - by Lionel Laurent

For the complete report from the Forbes.com click on this link

Euro Pumped By Strong German Data - by Lionel Laurent

The European economy still had the power to surprise on Wednesday, when Germany's business climate indicator showed an unexpected upswing from February. With the European Central Bank predicting above-target inflation for most of 2008, rate-cut hopes are starting to wither. The German Ifo business climate index showed a largely unexpected rise to 104.8 in March on Wednesday, up from 104.1, in February. The president of the Ifo institute said that companies were more optimistic about exports, despite the strong euro, and had clear plans to hire more workers.

Labels:

|

Links to this post

Create a Link

About us

EU-Digest, a free service of Europe House, provides news highlights and links to European related news reports on economic, social and political issues. Europe House reserves the right to deny any comments or articles it finds irrelevant. The information published in EU-Digest does not necessarily reflect the viewpoint or the opinion of Europe House.

Subscribe

To subscribe enter your Email


Powered by FeedBlitz

Tell a friend


Eurobarometer

European Weather - Amsterdam

Click for Amsterdam, Netherlands Forecast

For information on placing your advertising link click here.

Official PayPal Seal

Search

Google



Archives

Powered by Blogger
and Blogger Templates



Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Add to GoogleAdd to My AOL
Subscribe in BloglinesSubscribe in FeedLounge
Add EU-Digest to Newsburst from CNET News.com
BLOGGER


Get Firefox!