{"id":118237,"date":"2025-08-29T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=118237"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:32:01","slug":"german-retail-sales-disappoint-weakening-q3-consumption-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/german-retail-sales-disappoint-weakening-q3-consumption-outlook\/08\/29\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"German Retail Sales Disappoint, Weakening Q3 Consumption Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German retail sales <strong>plunged 1.5% in July<\/strong> compared with the previous month, far below the <strong>0.4% decline expected<\/strong>, signaling a slowdown in domestic consumption and clouding the outlook for <strong>third-quarter growth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Germany\u2019s economy <strong>contracted 0.3% in Q2<\/strong>, further dimming hopes for a sustained recovery in Europe\u2019s largest economy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analysts note that while <strong>foreign demand is under pressure<\/strong> from U.S. tariffs, private consumption was expected to support growth. Rising <strong>wages<\/strong> and <strong>low inflation<\/strong> suggested room for spending, but July figures <strong>disappointed these expectations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Consumer sentiment and inflation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The GfK survey anticipates <strong>falling consumer confidence for the third consecutive month in September<\/strong>, reflecting worries about <strong>job security<\/strong> and <strong>inflation uncertainty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Import prices:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>German <strong>import prices fell 1.4% year-on-year in July<\/strong>, slightly more than the <strong>1.2% decline forecast<\/strong>, providing modest relief for cost pressures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the data highlights <strong>weak domestic demand<\/strong>, raising concerns about Germany\u2019s <strong>short-term economic momentum<\/strong> despite supportive wage and inflation conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German retail sales plunged 1.5% in July compared with the previous month, far below the 0.4% decline expected, signaling a slowdown in domestic consumption and clouding the outlook for third-quarter growth. Germany\u2019s economy contracted 0.3% in Q2, further dimming hopes for a sustained recovery in Europe\u2019s largest economy. Analysts note that while foreign demand is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6839,7215,6987],"class_list":["post-118237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-germany","tag-hicp","tag-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118238,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118237\/revisions\/118238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}