15.05.2020 - Wealth Price Index

Q1-2020: Decline within the first quarter

by Philipp Immenkötter

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Within the first quarter of 2020, the prices of the assets held by German private household fell by -2.7%. This development is driven by a decline in the prices of financial assets and business wealth – except Gold. Compared to the same quarter of th ...

15.02.2020 - Wealth Price Index

Q4-2019: Inflation at 7.6%

by Philipp Immenkötter

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At the end of 2019, the prices for the assets of German private households rose by +7.6% in comparison to the end of the previous year. The reasons for this development are both the sharp rise in prices for business wealth and the relentlessly rising ...

13.12.2019 - Wealth Price Index

H1-2019: Inflation in Greece, deflation in France

by Philipp Immenkötter

By mid-2019, prices for the assets of private households in the Euro zone had risen by +1.6% in comparison to the previous mid-year figure. While asset prices rose massively in Greece, France had to struggle with deflation.

15.11.2019 - Wealth Price Index

Q3-2019: Real estate has come up trumps

by Philipp Immenkötter

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At the end of the third quarter, prices for the assets of private German households had risen by +2.9% year-on-year. A continuous rise in real estate prices is responsible for this development. Both, the development of asset prices in the cross-secti ...

26.09.2019 - Companies

Adjusted but still biased

by Philipp Immenkötter

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About half of the DAX companies report adjusted earnings per share that deviate from the accounting standard. Often costs are declared as special effects but are recurrent in nature. Likewise, income that was generated by the costs is left in the res ...

21.08.2019 - Wealth Price Index

Q2-2019: Asset prices still above consumer prices

by Philipp Immenkötter

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Even though asset price inflation at the end of the second quarter of 2019 was only +2.7% and hence significantly lower than in previous years, it remains well above consumer price inflation, which is only 1.6% compared with the same quarter of the p ...