{"id":435600,"date":"2026-08-06T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/german-construction-activity-continues-to-struggle-at-the-start-of-q3-435600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:00:07","slug":"german-construction-activity-continues-to-struggle-at-the-start-of-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/german-construction-activity-continues-to-struggle-at-the-start-of-q3-435600\/","title":{"rendered":"German construction activity continues to struggle at the start of Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>July construction PMI 42.1<\/li>\n<li>Prior 44.8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The construction downturn in Germany deepens in July, with firms\u00a0recording further declines in total activity and new orders. The only bright spot was a\u00a0renewed<br \/>\nexpansion in civil engineering activity. Price pressures and delivery delays also eased in July but it&#8217;s too early to say with much confidence how that will change as uncertainty continues to persist in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The main drag continued to come from the housing sector,<br \/>\nwhich saw activity fall sharply and at the quickest rate<br \/>\nfor three months. Meanwhile, work on commercial building projects<br \/>\nfell at an accelerated pace. The only sector to buck the trend was civil engineering, which\u00a0recorded a renewed increase for the first time in three months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking to the price front, the average\u00a0prices paid for building materials and products<br \/>\ncontinued to exhibit a strong rate of inflation in July. However, at least the overall rate\u00a0of increase slowed further<br \/>\nfrom April&#8217;s recent peak to its lowest since February. Firms continue to allude to\u00a0elevated oil<br \/>\nprices and the knock-on effects on the cost of commodities<br \/>\nand fuel as key reasons for prices staying higher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July construction PMI 42.1 Prior 44.8 The construction downturn in Germany deepens in July, with firms\u00a0recording further declines in total activity and new orders. The only bright spot was a\u00a0renewed expansion in&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-435600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435600","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=435600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}