{"id":22662,"date":"2011-07-26T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15108"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:47:41","slug":"gfk-consumer-climate-dips-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/07\/26\/gfk-consumer-climate-dips-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"GfK Consumer Climate Dips in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Few traders viewed this morning\u2019s publication a surprise given the tense nature of the foreign exchange (forex) market these past few weeks. Risk aversion is gaining momentum as the August 2 deadline approaches for the US to lift its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/07\/26\/dollar-declines-across-the-board-following-obama-speech\/\">debt ceiling<\/a> and as Europe continues to experience less-than-stellar performance.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15108\"><\/span>Debt woes on both sides of the Atlantic appear to be crushing any sentiment of growth. The publication by GfK of its consumer climate reading in Germany revealed a minor downtick in optimism, though the overall mood remains positive. The EUR was little affected by such data given the overarching events of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Few traders viewed this morning\u2019s publication a surprise given the tense nature of the foreign exchange (forex) market these past few weeks. Risk aversion is gaining momentum as the August 2 deadline approaches for the US to lift its debt ceiling an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}