Germany Financial News

By David Shepardson

The nation’s market, currently the world’s fifth largest at $4.5 trillion, briefly overtook Hong Kong last month. Still, its weight in global stock indexes is below 2%, leaving ample scope for foreigners to ramp up investments, analysts including Mahesh Nandurkar and Chris Wood wrote in a Feb. 21 note.

By Olivier Sorgho

The US dollar staged a bit of a sell-off overnight, with commodity-linked currencies showing strong performance.

LONDON (Reuters) — European shares rose to a record high on Thursday, lifted by a rally in global stocks that also saw Japan's blue-chip Nikkei index hit an all-time high.

Investing.com — The U.S. dollar retreated in early European trade Thursday, with risk sentiment boosted by Nvidia’s stellar earnings, with traders awaiting the release of key business activity surveys for clues of the health of the global economy.

Investing.com — European stock markets rose Thursday, continuing the Nvidia-inspired global surge as investors digested more earnings reports ahead of important regional business activity data. 

attacks on Indian students in America have risen in the recent past and the UK's economy is still struggling to recover from the mild recession it was reeling under — it is perhaps the time for Indian students to reassess the conventional study destinations of America, UK and Canada. Overall, there are 13.2 lakh Indian students currently studying abroad out of which 4.6 lakh are in the USA and 1.83 lakh students in Canada, World Bank blog data shows. There are a total of 423 higher education institutions in Germany, including 108 universities, 211 universities of applied sciences and 52 colleges of art and music.

Japan has reported its exports surged nearly 12% in January, helped by robust demand for vehicles, auto parts and machinery

The German government says Europe’s largest economy is in “troubled waters.”

By David Shepardson

By Katharine Jackson and Raphael Satter

Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died last week. Western leaders have expressed outrage at the news from Russian authorities that Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critic, had fallen unconscious and died in prison on Friday.

Investing.com — European stock markets traded in a mixed fashion Wednesday, with investors digesting a raft of corporate results, including disappointment from heavyweight HSBC. 

By Nell Mackenzie

By Tetsushi Kajimoto

Siemens, one of the world’s biggest wind turbine makers, points out that “energy bills will have to keep rising to pay for the green transition." (bit.ly/48qpYmx) A recent Bloomberg article (bloom.bg/3T60wyq) noted, “Affordable power is a key precondition for industrial competitiveness, and even before the end of Russian gas supplies, Germany had some of the highest electricity costs in Europe. Failure to stabilize the situation could transform a trickle of manufacturers heading elsewhere into a stampede." The article goes on to cite the OECD that “no major industrialized economy has ever had the very basis of its competitiveness and resilience so systematically challenged by changing social, environmental and regulatory pressures." In surveys, energy security and costs are cited as the major reasons for German businesses to move abroad. It is often claimed that the shift to renewables makes countries more energy secure, but most clean energy supply chains are dominated by China (tinyurl.com/y59rke62), leaving future green energy heavily dependent on one supplier.

₹10,000 crore and create 35,000 jobs, something that failed to materialize as owners chose to continue to sell old vehicles in rural areas instead. “The reason for the failure of this scheme is lack of incentives," said a government official, one of the two people cited above. "So, the plan is that both the government and automobile manufacturers offer incentives to the consumers—government incentives may come in the form of taxes, and auto manufacturers incentive could come in the form of discounts on the price of the vehicle," the official added.

Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports

(Reuters) — Ukraine's state arms producer has entered into cooperation with Germany's MBDA Deutschland, part of a missiles joint venture owned by Airbus, BAE Systems (LON:BAES) and Leonardo.

Russia has never hurt India’s interests and everyone conducts a relationship based on their past experiences, was External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s straight reply to German economic daily, Handelsblatt. “…The relations of powers like Europe, the US, China or Japan with Russia, they have all seen ups and downs. We have had a stable and always very friendly relationship with Russia. And our relationship with Russia today is based on this experience. For others, things were different, and conflicts may have shaped the relationship. We, on the other hand, had a politically and militarily much more difficult relationship with China, for example,” Jaishankar said, adding,” My point is: just as I do not expect Europe to have a view of China that is identical to mine, Europe should understand that I cannot have a view of Russia that is identical to the European one. Let us accept that there are natural differences in relationships.” The interview was conducted during Jaishankar’s recent visit to Munich.