BERLIN, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Investor morale in the euro zone rose to its highest reading in \u200cover four years in September, lifted by \u200cimprovements in expectations and current economic conditions that point to confidence \u200bin an economic upturn, a survey showed on Monday. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The Sentix index for the euro zone rose to 5.1 points in September from 0.9 points in August, compared \u200cwith a forecast \u2060of analysts polled by Reuters for 2.0 points. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The index has now increased for \u2060five straight months and reached its highest level since February 2022. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Sentix said the improvement was driven mainly \u200bby a \u200bsignificant rise in investors’ \u200bassessment of current conditions \u200cas well as expectations. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The current situation subindex climbed to -3.3 points in September from -8.0 points in August, while the expectations gauge rose 3.5 points to reach 13.8 points in September. <\/p>\n
\u2022 “The German economy, which has been lagging \u200cbehind, is not only not \u200bstanding in the way of \u200bthis development but is \u200beven contributing significantly to it in \u200cSeptember,” said Sentix. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Sentix’s headline \u200bindex for Germany \u200brose to -2.8 points from -11.9 points, its fourth consecutive increase and highest reading since July 2025. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The \u200bsurvey of 1,052 \u200cinvestors, including 209 institutional investors, was conducted between \u200bAugust 3 and August 5. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Miranda \u200bMurray, editing by Thomas Seythal) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Investor morale in the euro zone rose to its highest reading in \u200cover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2480],"tags":[62050,1820,2487,2486,2485,1096,46276,10544],"class_list":["post-132113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-zone","tag-august","tag-berlin","tag-euro-area","tag-euro-zone","tag-eurozone","tag-reuters","tag-sentix","tag-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}