{"id":429868,"date":"2026-04-27T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/germany-may-gfk-consumer-sentiment-33-3-vs-29-3-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:40:14","slug":"germany-may-gfk-consumer-sentiment-33-3-vs-29-3-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/germany-may-gfk-consumer-sentiment-33-3-vs-29-3-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany May GfK consumer sentiment -33.3 vs -29.3 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -28.0; revised to -28.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The German consumer climate worsens to a three-year low as the fallout from the Middle East conflict continues to take a toll on Europe&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">In particular, higher energy prices and in turn higher inflation is translating into a major worry for German households. And that is reflected by a nosedive in income expectations, which fell from -6.3 in April to -24.4 going into May. Economic expectations also declined further, down from -6.9 in April to -13.7 going into May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">On the latter, we&#8217;re pretty much circling levels last seen back during the Russia-Ukraine crisis in 2022. So, that&#8217;s a clear enough signal to how dire the outlook is as we look to the months ahead. And especially as the Middle East conflict shows no signs of easing just yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">GfK notes that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">&#8220;Income expectations are collapsing as a result of rising inflation. Against this backrop, people also consider the current time to be less favourable for major purchases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -28.0; revised to -28.1 The German consumer climate worsens to a three-year low as the fallout from the Middle East conflict continues to take a toll on Europe&#8217;s largest economy. In particular, higher energy prices and in turn higher inflation is translating into a major worry for German households. And that is reflected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}