German investor confidence plunged this month to depths not seen since February 2009 on fears that Europe's biggest economy is facing stiff headwinds, the ZEW research institute said Tuesday.
German banks may be forced to reduce their lending activity in order to drastically increase their capital base under proposed new regulation, Germany's private banking federation warned on Monday.
Germany’s top consumer organisation <i>Stiftung Warentest</i> on Tuesday panned the country's banks for the quality of investment advice they offered customers.
France and Germany on Wednesday called for a European ban on certain high-risk financial market instruments such as naked short selling in a joint appeal that came amid tensions over the eurozone debt crises.
Germany's cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law expanding a ban on naked short selling which angered its international partners to include all stocks traded in Germany.
Germany on Wednesday defended its decision last week to ban naked short selling, saying it wanted a "signal to markets" it will not tolerate "excessive speculation" regardless of international criticism.
The Gulf emirate of Qatar is looking for more German investment opportunities after becoming the third biggest shareholder in Volkswagen, a top official told the business daily <i>Handelsblatt</i>.
Germany and France are moving to curb or even ban the use of certain financial derivatives in the wake of the Greek debt crisis, daily <i>SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported Tuesday.
German financial market regulators on Monday lifted a ban on short-selling, where investors bet on a company's share price losing value, saying the chaos the practice had caused in 2008 had subsided.
German investor sentiment fell for the fourth month running as Europe's biggest economy braced for a "burdensome and long" recovery, the ZEW economic research institute said on Tuesday.
The international ratings agency Standard & Poor's stood by its top rating of Germany's sovereign debt on Wednesday, in sharp contrast to a warning issued two days earlier to Greece.
Most people wouldn’t consider the scruffy German capital an innovative financial centre, but as <b>Michael Dumiak</b> reports, some serious business is going down not far from Berlin’s once-infamous Zoo train station.
Germany has fallen behind countries like Georgia and Mauritius when it comes to having the best atmosphere for business because of chronic reform problems, according to a new World Bank study, “Doing Business 2009.”
Berlin on Wednesday to block takeovers of German firms by petrodollar-rich investment vehicles known as sovereign wealth funds if they are deemed to jeopardize national security.
