{"id":122131,"date":"2025-05-22T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122131\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T09:11:10","slug":"german-business-sentiment-brightens-in-may-ifo-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122131\/","title":{"rendered":"German business sentiment brightens in May, Ifo survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -German business morale improved slightly more than expected in May, a survey showed on Thursday, thanks to less gloomy expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Ifo institute said its business climate index rose to 87.5 in May from 86.9 in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a rise in the reading to 87.4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;The German economy is slowly regaining its footing,&#8221; Ifo president Clemens Fuest said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The improvement in business morale was mainly due to a rise in expectations to 88.9 in May from 87.4 in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">However, current conditions fell to 86.1 from 86.4 in the previous month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Rachel More, Kirsti Knolle and Maria Martinez, Editing by Madeline Chambers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -German business morale improved slightly more than expected in May, a survey showed on Thursday, thanks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[54356,54354,2000,299,26297,54355,1824,6559],"class_list":{"0":"post-122131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-business-climate-index","9":"tag-clemens-fuest","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-expectations","13":"tag-german-business","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-ifo-institute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114550714126229216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}