Manufacturing and Services Out of Sync, Not Just in the US by Wolf Richter • May 6, 2019 • 68 Comments Goods producing economy suffers globally. Services expected to keep it all taped together.
US Still Cleanest Dirty Shirt Among Manufacturing Giants, Germany Drops to Debt Crisis Levels, Japan Contracts, China Counts on Government Bailout of Private Sector by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2019 • 45 Comments But the US shirt is getting dirtier. Germany’s manufacturing data “makes for uncomfortable reading.”
Deutsche Bank Seeking a “Guarantee of Existence” with Monster-Merger? by Don Quijones • Mar 27, 2019 • 26 Comments Opposition Is Growing to Merger Between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.
Views of “Current Economic Conditions” in Germany Drop to Euro Debt-Crisis Level by Wolf Richter • Mar 19, 2019 • 68 Comments But expectations & hopes for the next 6 months rise to less negative.
Just Get Brexit Over With? Businesses Fear Prolonging the Uncertainty by Don Quijones • Mar 18, 2019 • 35 Comments “In addition to uncertainty about what’s going to happen, now there’s uncertainty about when it will happen.”
US is Cleanest Dirty Shirt Among Manufacturing Giants. China, Japan & Germany Sink by Wolf Richter • Mar 3, 2019 • 56 Comments The four account for 58% of global manufacturing value added. And the big exporters are getting hit.
Next in the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Saga of European and Asian Airlines by MC01 • Feb 17, 2019 • 72 Comments The fate of the A380 is sealed.
German Industrial Production Falls the Most Since 2009. New Orders Plummet by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2019 • 45 Comments Q4 is falling apart before everyone’s astonished eyes, and a “technical recession” beckons.
Big Exporters are Losing It: US Manufacturing Gains. Germany, Japan, China not so Lucky by Wolf Richter • Jan 24, 2019 • 66 Comments Central-Bank Stimulus Fail: The longer it drags on, the worse it gets?
Germany Heads for a Technical Recession by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2019 • 67 Comments This is embarrassing in the land of super-stimulus via the ECB’s negative-interest-rate policy and years of QE.