{"id":346,"date":"2024-07-29T04:40:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/german-business-sentiment-unexpectedly-darkens-in-july-says-ifo\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:40:40","slug":"german-business-sentiment-unexpectedly-darkens-in-july-says-ifo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/german-business-sentiment-unexpectedly-darkens-in-july-says-ifo\/","title":{"rendered":"German business sentiment unexpectedly darkens in July, says Ifo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>By Maria  Martinez<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -German business morale unexpectedly fell in July, amid increasing pessimism about the performance of Europe\u2019s largest economy, a survey of around 9,000 managers showed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ifo institute said its business climate index sank to 87.0 in July from 88.6 in June, compared with a reading of 88.9 forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe German economy is stuck in the crisis,\u201d said Ifo president Clemens Fuest.<\/p>\n<p>The current conditions index fell to 87.1 from 88.3 in the previous month. Analyst polled by Reuters expected the index to rise to 88.5<\/p>\n<p>Scepticism has also increased noticeably with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wmbdradio.com\/2024\/07\/25\/german-business-sentiment-unexpectedly-darkens-in-july-says-ifo\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -German business morale unexpectedly fell in July, amid increasing pessimism about the performance of Europe\u2019s largest economy, a survey of around 9,000 managers showed on Thursday. The Ifo institute said its business climate index sank to 87.0 in July from 88.6 in June, compared with a reading of 88.9 forecast [&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-346","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\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}