Merkelnomics

Binge shopping? German consumers have become real optimists and any worries about the current Greek crisis were clearly outweighed by low in...

The gradual improvement continues. Germany's most prominent leading indicator, the Ifo index, just increased for the fifth month in a ro...

As expected, the ECB today kept interest rates unchanged at its meeting in Cyprus. While Draghi was surprisingly upbeat on the economic outl...

The next act of the Greek crisis has all the elements for a new blockbuster: conciliation, refusal, only the happy end is still far from cer...

The German economy ended a volatile year on a very strong note. According to the statistical office’s first official estimate, the economy g...

Good news from the perfect little world. German business confidence confirmed the decent rebound of the economy in the final quarter of the ...

Today, the ECB finally entered the global QE arena. Instead of keeping some aces up their sleeves, the ECB showed its entire hand: a fully-f...