Tag: Germany

Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 05:59 UTC
Investors wanting safe parking for their money buy 0% German bonds

Germany got bids for 6.24 billion Euros of two-year notes at an auction Wednesday exceeding its 5 billion-Euro maximum sales target, according to a statement from the Bundesbank.
Saturday, August 18th 2012 - 05:45 UTC
Euro zone June trade surplus was the highest since 1999

The Euro zone trade surplus hit 14.9bn Euros in June up from 200m Euros a year ago. The surplus was the highest since the European Union's statistics agency began collecting data in 1999.
Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 18:38 UTC
Sea Shepherd leader Watson skips bail fearing extradition to Japan

Sea Shepherd leader Paul Watson has skipped bail and fled from Germany, with his supporters claiming they fear he would have been extradited to Japan over Antarctic whaling protests.
Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 09:07 UTC
Immigration compensated for fewer babies, helped Germany increase population

The number of babies born in Germany sank to a record low in 2011, official statistics showed Monday, but a surge in immigration to Europe's top economy led its population to grow.
Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 07:04 UTC
Germany and France express support for Spain but markets demand more than words

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his counterpart from Madrid said Spain’s borrowing costs don’t reflect the strength of its economy as they pledged to work toward deeper integration to fight the debt crisis.
Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 08:41 UTC
Euro-zone countdown for Greece: Germany and IMF will not yield on austerity measures

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Greece in a newspaper interview Monday that it must redouble efforts to comply with bailout conditions imposed by international creditors. “If there were delays, Greece must make up for them,” he told the daily Bild.
Monday, July 16th 2012 - 03:21 UTC
Merkel confident Bundestag will support aid package for Spanish banks

Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was confident that a majority of German lawmakers would back aid for Spain's ailing banking sector at a special sitting of the lower house Bundestag set for Thursday.
Wednesday, July 11th 2012 - 22:16 UTC
Germany expected to grow 1.9% in 2013 because of Euro crisis

Germany's DIW economic research institute slashed its 2013 forecast for Europe's largest economy by 0.5 percentage points to 1.9% on Wednesday, saying the Euro zone debt crisis would have a bigger impact than it had originally expected.
Wednesday, July 11th 2012 - 19:57 UTC
German proposal: richest citizens should pay more taxes or loan long term to governments

A leading German economic research institute has come up with one way to help countries involved in the euro crisis pay down their sovereign debt: get the wealthiest citizens to pay higher taxes, or force them to loan money to their governments.
Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 - 18:56 UTC
IMF praises Germany; suggests more stimuli to a tepid performing US economy

An IMF report revealed that the German economy’s performance has been remarkable despite facing considerable headwinds and that the US recovery “remains tepid and subject to elevated downside risks.”