One Chart to Watch: German Economic Growth

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is chart 36, “Germany: Eco Outlook, Industrial Production & PMI”. German economic data continues to decelerate from levels of growth seen last year. This is likely to weigh on euro-area growth. When lagged 1 year, the expectations component of the ZEW survey (Black Line in the chart) has a 0.67 correlation with the year-over-year change in euro-area GDP (source: Bloomberg). All three industrial indicators below, Investor Expectations of Economic Growth (Black Line), German Industrial Production (Gold Line), and the German Markit Manufacturing PMI (Green Line), have been in a down trend for 6 months. Euro area GDP grew at 0.2% in Q1 and is estimated to have grown by 0.3% in Q2. For the full year 2014, expectations are for euro-area growth equal to 1.1%, up from -0.4% last year.

The next ZEW Expectation of Economic Growth survey will be released tomorrow, July 15^th. The next data point for Germany Industrial Production will be available August 6^th. The next Markit Germany Manufacturing PMI figure will be released on July 24^th.

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