Germany: Manufacturing likely to decline in April - TDS

Analysts at TD Securities suggest that German manufacturing has posted increases in 3 of the last 4 months, but they are looking for decline in April of 0.6% m/m (consensus: -0.5%) largely on the back of weak China IP in the month as well as continued effects of deteriorating confidence.

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“We do note heightened divergence between surveys and hard data recently, so it's possible the drag from the weak PMIs is somewhat lower.”

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