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Markets · Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Europe turned the week's pattern over in one session. All nine boards we track closed higher on Friday, after two straight sessions…
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Macro · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Germany's public sector ran a financing deficit of 98.8 billion euros in the first half of 2026, the Federal Statistical Office said…
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Markets · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our European board closed lower for a second straight session on Thursday, and the declines ran deeper: the banks…
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Macro · Sep 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Consumer price inflation rose in Germany, France, Italy and Spain in September, according to flash estimates from the 4 national statistics offices.…
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Markets · Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Every one of the nine rows we track closed lower on Wednesday, the quarter's final European session: Paris's CAC 40 fell 0.89…
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Macro · Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
German import prices in August 2026 were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, the largest annual increase since December 2022, the…
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Markets · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read
Europe split down the middle on Tuesday: technology was the only one of the eight Stoxx supersectors we track to rise, jumping…
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Macro · Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Germany's general government owed 2,753.5 billion euros to the non-public sector at the end of the second quarter of 2026, up 1.0…
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Markets · Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Europe closed its first session after the weekend's Hormuz rejection flat at the index level and split underneath: the Stoxx Europe 600…
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Macro · Sep 26, 2026 · 2 min read
New orders in German main construction fell 9.2 percent in July from June in real, seasonally and calendar-adjusted terms, the Federal Statistical…
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Markets · Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
Europe bought back most of Thursday's fall and the one index that declined barely moved. Eight of the nine rows on our…
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Markets · Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Europe sold every index on our board for a second straight session, and this time the barrel was the loudest thing on…
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Macro · Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Prices of residential property in Germany rose 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from a year earlier, Destatis said on…
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Markets · Sep 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Europe closed lower across all nine boards on Wednesday and left one patch of green on the sector table. London's FTSE 100…
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EU · Sep 21, 2026 · 4 min read
Germany exported about 2.0 million new cars worth 73.5 billion euros between January and July 2026, 4.0 percent fewer than a year…
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Macro · Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Producer prices of industrial products sold within Germany were 4.6 percent higher in August than a year earlier and 1.1 percent higher…
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Macro · Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Germany's manufacturing order backlog rose 1.5 percent in July from June in real terms and set another all-time high, the Federal Statistical…
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Macro · Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
German wholesale selling prices rose 6.8 percent in August against the same month of 2025 and 0.9 percent against July. The Federal…
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Macro · Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read
German consumer prices rose 2.9 percent in the year to August, the Federal Statistical Office said, confirming its flash estimate without revision.…
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Macro · Sep 8, 2026 · 4 min read
German exports to the United States rose 19.1 percent in July to 14.4 billion euros, the largest single move in the trade…
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Macro · Sep 7, 2026 · 3 min read
German industrial production fell 1.1 percent in July from June, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday, and 1.6 percent against July…
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Macro · Sep 5, 2026 · 4 min read
New orders in German manufacturing rose 2.5 percent in July on a seasonally and calendar adjusted basis, the federal statistics office reported…
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Macro · Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Germany's annual inflation rate climbed to 2.9 percent in August 2026, up from 2.8 percent in July, according to preliminary figures published…
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Macro · Aug 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Germany's labour market cooled further in July 2026 even as the cost of goods bought from abroad accelerated, according to two releases…
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Macro · Aug 25, 2026 · 4 min read
Germany's gross domestic product grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from the previous quarter, in price, seasonally and calendar…
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Macro · Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min read
China remained Germany's largest trading partner in the first half of 2026, with a trade volume of 125.5 billion euros, ahead of…
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Macro · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
German companies invested 4.3 billion euros directly in the United States in the first half of 2026, the lowest level since 2023,…
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Germany · Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
German consumer prices rose two point eight percent in the year to July 2026, up from two point three percent in June,…
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Germany · Aug 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Germany's trade deficit with China reached fifty five point two billion euros in the first half of 2026, as German exports to…
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Germany · Aug 7, 2026 · 4 min read
German exports reached 139.3 billion euros in June 2026, up 0.9 percent on May and 6.6 percent on June 2025, the highest…
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Germany · Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The ifo Business Climate Index for Germany rose to 86.6 in July from 85.7 in June. The headline improvement, however, came entirely…
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Macro · Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
German wholesale prices rose 4.9 percent in June from a year earlier, easing from 5.9 percent in May, and fell 0.7 percent…
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Macro · Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
German exports rose 0.9 percent in May from the previous month to 137.9 billion euros on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis,…
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Markets · Jul 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Germany's cabinet has approved the draft federal budget for 2027 and the financial plan through 2030, marking one of the clearest fiscal…
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Markets · Jun 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Business sentiment in the euro area's two largest economies improved slightly in June, but the gains remained modest and the underlying indicators…
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Macro · Jun 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Wholesale selling prices in Germany rose 5.9 percent in May 2026 compared with a year earlier, according to data published by the…
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Frankfurt rose 0.44% to lead a split European board on Wednesday, while a Brazil-driven slide in Santander pulled Madrid 1.45% lower and London took the Healey budget in stride. Earnings did the day’s sorting: in The Edge’s reading, results that rewarded Deutsche Bank and punished Santander moved the continent’s markets, while the budget’s clearest mark…
Mercedes-Benz lifted third-quarter net profit to €1.52 billion on Wednesday, a day after cutting its 2026 car margin guidance, while Stellantis narrowed its quarterly net loss to €453 million. In The Edge’s reading, higher European sales are not yet enough to protect carmakers’ margins. Mercedes-Benz’s adjusted car margin nearly halved to 2.5% despite rising European…
BNP Paribas lifted third-quarter net income 13.5% to €3.46 billion on Wednesday, and UBS, Santander, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered also reported higher profit on their own headline measures. In The Edge’s reading, wealth and markets businesses supplied much of the growth at UBS and Standard Chartered, and the corporate and institutional bank at BNP…
Milan’s FTSE MIB rose 0.90 percent to 49,627.95 on Tuesday, a third straight gain at the top of a European board that closed eight of its nine indices higher, on our count. Basic resources climbed 2.08 percent and technology 1.99 percent to lead the Stoxx sectors, while London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.75 percent, the lone…
The nine European indices we track all closed higher on Monday. Milan’s FTSE MIB rose 1.29 percent to lead the session, Frankfurt’s DAX added 0.91 percent after a stronger-than-expected Ifo survey, and the Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.77 percent to 640.66, ending two straight declines, at the start of a week in which the Federal…
The oil and gas group rose 2.99 percent on Friday, the only gainer among the eight Stoxx supersectors we track, on a day United States crude topped 100 dollars a barrel on renewed concern that the United States-Iran conflict will flare again, per CNBC’s report. The Stoxx Europe 600 slipped 0.31 percent to 635.77, a…
Milan’s FTSE MIB fell 2.54 percent on Thursday, the deepest decline on a day when all nine European indices we track closed lower. Banks and miners fell hardest among the sectors, down 3.54 and 3.89 percent, while health care rose 2.07 percent. The retreat completed a clean sweep across our coverage: every index we published…
Europe’s nine indices all rose on Wednesday as technology shares rebounded from the chip selloff. The Euro STOXX 50 gained 1.40 percent and Frankfurt’s DAX rose 1.35, while London’s FTSE 100 lagged at 0.19 percent higher after a hotter-than-expected British inflation report. Brent crude traded 1.04 percent above Tuesday’s settlement at 109.92 dollars a barrel…
Seven of Europe’s nine indices slipped on Tuesday as the selloff in the chip names crossed from Asia, while Zurich and Madrid rose. Amsterdam’s AEX fell 0.68 percent in the day’s deepest move, and the STOXX Europe 600 eased 0.14. Health care led the sectors at 1.83 percent while technology fell 0.91. Brent gave back…
Construction output in the euro area rose 1.8 percent in August from July, Eurostat said on 20 October. That is the largest monthly gain since March, on our reading. Output across the wider EU grew 2.0 percent. Compared with August 2025, euro area construction was 1.4 percent higher, the first annual gain since May, on…