Germany has been “clearly in a recession since the end of 2022” and even fell back into contraction over the second and third quarters of this year, the central bank said.

The second estimate of German GDP growth in Q3 showed that the economy only just avoided a summer recession. GDP growth came in at 0.1% quarter-on-quarter, from +0.2% QoQ in the first estimate. Given ...

Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, has once again avoided a technical recession but businesses and consumers keep sending warning signals that the challenges engulfing the country are becoming ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy contracted more than expected in the final quarter of last year, reigniting recession fears as Europe's biggest economy is beset by political uncertainty ahead of ...

The German economy could be on track to shrink for a second consecutive quarter after struggles in the country's all-important automotive sector saw industrial output slump in August. Fresh data from ...

Ongoing U.S. tariffs could push Europe's largest economy into a recession, German central bank President Joachim Nagel warned. "Now we are in a world with tariffs, so we could expect maybe a recession ...

German manufacturing output has been looking weak for some time, thus that economy is also looking poor. Eurozone PMIs are also weak, the prediction is now for a recession in Germany at least. We ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -The German economy grew in the first quarter of the year thanks to consumption and investment, escaping a recession after contracting in the last quarter of last year, data showed on ...

Germany's economy is set to contract by 0.2% this year and slip into recesssion for a third consecutive year, according to a new forecast by the Cologne-based German Economic Institute (IW). The ...

BERLIN -- Europe moved a step closer to recession Thursday with the news that the German economy unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter, as consumers and firms reined in spending even before the ...