David Brown German Quotations

It is not just economic spring returning to the German recovery, it looks like full blown summer has arrived for German business confidence.

Over the next few days the euro zone markets will be watching the German opinion polls very carefully in the run-up to Sunday's general election -- especially at the growing risk of a hung result and a grand coalition being formed,

The bottom line for German growth this year is that recovery momentum is flagging with GDP likely to rise by no more than 0.8 percent in 2005,

The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it's a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates,

The markets have been pinning their hopes on improved chances of speedier tax cuts and structural reforms that would speed up the road to faster German recovery, ... Investors would tend to give a grand coalition the thumbs down, as reforms would be put on ice.