{"id":395132,"date":"2026-01-28T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:43:14","slug":"germany-february-gfk-consumer-sentiment-24-1-vs-26-0-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395132\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany February GfK consumer sentiment -24.1 vs -26.0 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">That marks a slight improvement in German consumer morale heading into the month ahead, although it comes after the January reading was the lowest since March 2024. So, the slight bounce isn&#8217;t all too optimistic as overall conditions continue to point to a struggling consumer climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">For some context, the last time the index was in positive territory was all the way back in late 2021. So, it&#8217;s tough to build up much hope for a material turnaround in sentiment based on the latest estimate. The hope is for Germany&#8217;s fiscal boost to kick into gear later this year to bolster economic conditions. However, higher and more stubborn price pressures will remain a key area of concern for households and businesses still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That marks a slight improvement in German consumer morale heading into the month ahead, although it comes after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-395132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}