Germany’s business outlook improved slightly in September, while remaining at historically low levels as the economy faces another contraction this quarter.
An expectations gauge released by the IFO Institute ticked up to 82.9 from 82.7 in August, a touch worse than economists had estimated in a Bloomberg poll. An index of current conditions also slipped. “It’s not falling apart but it’s not stabilising,” the IFO’s president Clemens Fuest told Bloomberg TV. “The Germany economy has ...