Germany Boosts Borrowing to New Record
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The German government will take on an extra 14 billion euros ($17.23 billion) in debt this year because the country's economic upturn so far has failed to boost tax revenue, taking new borrowing to a record ...
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Germany's trade surplus will reach a record high of 158 billion euros (199 billion US dollars), The German Wholesale and Foreign Trade Federation, or BGA, reported Thursday.
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The euro hit a new record on Friday against the unravelling US dollar, surging to US$1.3549, with some analysts seeing US$1.40 as a potential trigger level for European Central Bank intervention.
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The euro yesterday reached a new record high against the dollar, renewing fears that the faltering economic recovery in mainland Europe will be choked off next year.
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The cost of borrowing headed higher as yields on the 10-year Treasury note hit a five-year high, climbing to 5.248 percent.
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Inflation hit a 13-year high of 3.1 percent in November in Germany, well above the European Central Bank's target rate of 2.0 percent, official data showed Friday.
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Greenback weakness sends Euro to a new record and across a psychologically significant barrier.
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Germany's stubbornly high unemployment rate spiked even higher in December to 10.8 percent, the Federal Labor Office reported Tuesday.
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Germany's trade surplus hit a surprise record in October, underpinning optimism about the pace of recovery.
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BERLIN  - Germany was the world's largest exporter for the second year in a row in 2004 despite the skyrocketing strength of the euro, according to preliminary statistics released by the government Tuesday.
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Consumer confidence in Germany, Europe's largest economy, rose for the first month in three after growth accelerated in the second quarter, a survey this month by the market research company GfK AG shows.
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European repurchase market volumes jumped a record-breaking 270 per cent this month as fears of a liquidity crunch drove banks to turn to the relative safety of the secured money markets.
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People in the UK are borrowing almost twice that of citizens in other western European countries, a report says.
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The number of people looking for work in Germany, the biggest eurozone economy, rose to its highest level in seven years as the bad weather and sluggish growth caused dole queues to swell at the end of last year, official data showed.
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Consumer borrowing posted an increase of 6.4% in May, reflecting the biggest jump in credit card debt in six months.
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Merger and acquisition activity involving UK banks set a new record before the crisis in the credit market.
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The German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, was teetering on the edge of its third recession in just four years at the end of 2004, but the outlook for this year is brighter with investor confidence on the rise, data showed.