Germany Ifo Survey (April 2024)

The rise in the German Ifo in April, together with the jump in the Composite PMI in the same month, suggests that the German economy may be past the worst. But, unlike the PMI, the Ifo remained in contractionary territory. We expect the economy to remain weak this year.

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