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Posted on December 15, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleGermany's economy started Q4 2025 robustly, despite declining business expectations and consumer sentiment, according to the economy ministry.
BERLIN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Germany's economy appears to have had a robust start to the fourth quarter of 2025 based on current indicators, even as business expectations and consumer sentiment somewhat deteriorated, said the economy ministry in its monthly report.
"At the end of the year, the German economy continues to find itself in a tension between a challenging external economic environment on the one hand and a gradual domestic stabilization on the other," said the ministry in its report published Monday.
(Writing by Miranda Murray, editing by Kirsti Knolle)
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