At the end of the third quarter, asset prices for German households were -1.5% lower than in the prior-year quarter. For German assets, this is the first price decline since 2009, after asset prices had risen continuously, driven in part by the monet ...

At mid-year, prices for private household assets in the Euro area continued to rise, while at the same time signs of a trend reversal are clearly discernible. While real estate prices in the Euro area were still defying the changed conditions at mid- ...

Inflation is currently weighing heavily on companies' profit expectations. A look back to the 1970s helps to understand which companies came through the inflation phases well at that time.

In the second half of 2021, asset price inflation in the euro area again ranked at a record level. In the third quarter, the price of assets held by private households in the euro zone increased by +10.5% year-on-year. At the end of the year, prices ...

For more than ten years, asset prices rose much faster than consumer prices. The impact of the corona pandemic and recent geopolitical changes now appear to have reversed this trend. Both measures of inflation are currently on par. Unaffected by this ...