Latest ‘flash’ PMI® data from S&P Global showed a deepening decline in business activity across Germany’s private sector economy at the end of the third quarter. Amid a backdrop of persistently high inflation, economic uncertainty and increasedenergy costs, firms recorded a substantial reduction in demand and revised down their expectations for future output to the lowest since the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inflationary pressures meanwhileintensified. The headline S&P Global Flash Germany PMI Composite Output Index registered in sub-50 contraction territory for the third straight month in ... (full story)