German 2005 growth outlook slashed
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Germany, the world's third-biggest economy, can no longer rely on exports to fuel domestic spending, prompting economists to cut their growth forecasts for next year to as low as 1 per cent.
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The growth expectations of German finance professionals have dropped to their lowest level in 15 months amid fears that slowing global economic growth could hurt the nation's export-driven recovery, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Germany&#39;s leading economic institutes on Tuesday raised their growth forecast for the country this year to 1.8 percent, but predicted that the recovery in Europe&#39;s largest economy would slow next year amid slowing export growth and high oil prices.
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The European Commission on Tuesday revised upwards its growth forecast for this year, but cut its prediction for 2005 GDP growth to 2.0 percent, in its regular autumn economic outlook report.
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Germany's economy, Europe's largest, unexpectedly shrank in the fourth quarter as domestic spending declined and exports failed to make up the difference.
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The German government says surging oil prices are on track to trim economic growth by 0.25% this year.
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The German economy grew by 2.5 percent last year, provisional figures released on Tuesday by the national statistics office Destatis showed.
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Growth of the German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, is expected to slow to just 1.4 percent next year from 1.8 percent expected this year, the government's so-called &quot;Five Wise Men&quot; panel of independent economic advisors forecast.
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Germany has slashed its public deficit to 1.7 percent of output in 2006 -- much lower than originally estimated -- thanks to the booming economy, official data showed on Thursday.
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LONDON: A leading business group cut its 2005 forecast for British economic growth yesterday, blaming a combination of high oil and commodity prices, slowing global growth and domestic interest rate rises.
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The European Commission cut its growth forecast for 2005, saying record oil prices will damp global demand and warned that five of the 12 countries using the euro will post deficits at or above European limits next year.
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The UK economy is set to slow markedly in 2005, consultancy firm Deloitte warns, with growth of just 2%.
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Germany's budget deficit for 2004 is expected to be far lower than forecast and fall below the record of 40 billion euros (52 billion dollars), a finance ministry spokesman revealed.
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"Growth will slow down, due to increased global risk"  Germany's economy minister and a leading economic institute said Wednesday they expect 2008 growth to cool amid rising food and oil prices and fallout from the U.S. subprime mortgage loan crisis.Economy Minster Michael Glos was quoted by the mass-circulation Bild daily as saying the government was scaling back its forecast for 2008 to just under 2 percent. He did not give an exact figure.The Berlin-based DIW economic institute said it expected gross domestic product to expand by 2.1 percent in the coming year, following growth of at least 2.4 percent in 2007. Read more
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The German economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the last three months of 2004, a preliminary estimate by the federal statistics office, Destatis, shows, confirming a slowdown in activity in the eurozone's biggest economy in the second half of last year.
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The sharp rise in the euro at the end of last year could whittle down the Bundesbank's 2004 annual profit to next to nothing, spelling further bad news for Germany's already severely straitened public finances, ...
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Down 3.7% from last year The German mobile market will experience sluggish growth in 2006, according to a report from analyst Telecompaper.â¦