A employee on the Siemens fuel turbine manufacturing unit in Berlin, Germany.
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The German financial system stagnated within the fourth quarter as each personal consumption and state spending misplaced momentum, preliminary knowledge confirmed on Friday.
On the 12 months, gross home product in Europe’s largest financial system expanded by 0.4% from October by means of December after a 0.6% growth within the earlier three months, seasonally adjusted figures from the Federal Statistics Workplace confirmed.
Analysts polled by Reuters had anticipated a 0.1% growth quarter-on-quarter and a 0.4% growth year-on-year in seasonally adjusted phrases.
