Wholesale: Ifo Business Climate in Germany 2017-2018

This statistic shows the monthly balances of Ifo Business Climate Index in the wholesale sector in Germany from March 2017 to March 2017. In March 2017, the seasonally adjusted balance value of the Ifo Business Climate in German wholsale was +20.7 points. This indicates that a definite majority of German wholesalers rated their current economic situation as mainly positive.

Monthly balance values of the Ifo Business Climate in the wholesale sector (seasonally adjusted) in Germany from March 2017 to March 2018

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Release date

March 2018

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

March 2017 to March 2018

Special properties

wholesale enterprises

Supplementary notes

The CESifo Group consists of the Center for Economic Studies (CES), the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and the CESifo GmbH (Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research).

The Ifo Business Climate Index is based on ca. 7,000 monthly reports from companies in manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail. Companies are asked to evaluate their current business situation and describe their expectations for the coming six months. Companies can rate their current situation as "good", "satisfactory" or "poor" and their expectations for the next six months as "more favorable", "unchanged" or "less favorable". The balance value of the present business situation is the difference between the percentages of the ratings "good" and "poor", the balance value of the expectations is the difference between the percentages between ratings "more favorable" und "less favorable". The business climate is the transformed average value of these two balance values.

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