German producer inflation slows
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Germany's producer price inflation has risen by its lowest annual rate in just over two years, official figures shows.
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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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BERLIN  - The German economy slowed unexpectedly in the fourth quarter of 2004, contracting by 0.2 per cent as domestic demand shrank and outweighed increased exports, the government statistics office said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Reports on retail sales and producer prices show US economic growth has cooled since its third-quarter spurt, while inflation slows.
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The German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, nearly came to a standstill in the third quarter as exports, previously the main driving force behind growth, slumped on the back of slowing global growth, official figures showed.
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Inflation in May outside of food and energy posted its slowest annual gain in three years, suggesting the Federal Reserve is making progress in fighting inflation.
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Business confidence in Germany, Europe&#39;s largest economy, probably declined to a four-month low in October amid signs that both export orders and consumer spending are slowing, a survey of economists showed.
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The modest recovery of the German economy ran out of steam in the third quarter, official data showed, as exports, previously the main driving force behind growth of the eurozone's biggest economy, slumped on the back of the global economic slowdown.
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Federal Reserve  policy-makers on Friday said inflation remained a risk to the  U.S. economy, even as data showing factory activity falling for  the first time in 3-1/2 years indicated growth was slowing.
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U.S. producer prices dipped unexpectedly by 0.1 percent in December after a sharp drop in fuel prices, government data showed on Tuesday, but core producer inflation rose by 0.2 percent as projected.
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A closely watched gauge of consumer inflation fell in May to its slowest annual pace in three years, while Midwest business activity kept expanding in June at a healthy clip, reports on Friday showed.
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U.S. producer prices dropped  unexpectedly last month as energy price gains eased and the  cost of food and vehicles fell, according to a government  report on Friday that showed inflation pressures fading.
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German investor confidence dropped to its lowest in almost two years in November on concern that crude oil at US$50 per barrel and the euro's appreciation will hurt economic growth and corporate profits.
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The German economy slowed unexpectedly in the fourth quarter of 2004, contracting by 0.2 percent as domestic demand shrank and outweighed increased exports, the government statistics office said Tuesday.
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Inflation in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, looked set to pick up this month as a result of a renewed surge in high oil prices, key regional data showed.
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Clouds continued to gather over the German economy on Monday, as the Bundesbank estimated that the modest recovery of the eurozone's biggest economy already appears to be running out steam.
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The economy is still caught between slowing growth and stubborn inflation pressures, new government reports showed Tuesday.