{"id":344,"date":"2024-07-29T04:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/french-and-german-falls-in-business-confidence-raise-prospect-of-ecb-cut\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:40:36","slug":"french-and-german-falls-in-business-confidence-raise-prospect-of-ecb-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/french-and-german-falls-in-business-confidence-raise-prospect-of-ecb-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"French and German falls in business confidence raise prospect of ECB cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->Eurozone economy<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=451a6fa4-47e3-430c-885d-2d9af4bb58db&amp;concept-id=248d873c-6689-4764-bede-cab061889217\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>French and German business confidence has fallen sharply, boosting the chances of a fresh interest rate cut by the European Central Bank in September amid signs the Eurozone\u2019s two largest economies are set for a downturn.<\/p>\n<p>German two-year bond yields fell 0.04 percentage points to a five-month low of 2.67 per cent on Thursday, as traders increased their bets the ECB would respond to signs of a weakening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/eurozone-economy\" data-trackable=\"link\">economy<\/a> by lowering interest rates at its next meeting on September 12. They later rose back to 2.7 per cent after the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/451a6fa4-47e3-430c-885d-2d9af4bb58db\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox. French and German business confidence has fallen sharply, boosting the chances of a fresh interest rate cut by the European Central Bank in September amid signs the Eurozone\u2019s two largest economies are set for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}