{"id":445146,"date":"2026-05-12T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445146\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:34:08","slug":"germany-may-zew-survey-current-conditions-77-8-vs-77-8-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445146\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany May ZEW survey current conditions -77.8 vs -77.8 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -73.7Economic sentiment -10.2 vs -19.8 expectedPrior -17.2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The headline reading shows that the read on business conditions are seen worsening further, with it being the worst since December last year. The fallout from the US-Iran conflict has turned around the optimistic rebound in sentiment since the turn of the year. That as Germany&#8217;s manufacturing sector is set to be hit hard by the negative impact of rising energy prices and tightening supply chains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The bright side though is that we are seeing an improvement in the outlook reading. While still in negative territory, it is a marked rebound after having fallen to the lowest since December 2022 in April last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">Perhaps it is a signal that financial market experts are keeping more optimistic that there will be a positive news on the US-Iran conflict. That being said, the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed will continue to apply a strain to the overall German economy. So, it might be quick to jump the gun to say that the worst is over already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior -73.7Economic sentiment -10.2 vs -19.8 expectedPrior -17.2 The headline reading shows that the read on business conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-445146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}