German Consumers Grow More Cautious as Confidence Slips
The consumer-climate index published by research groups GfK and the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions fell to minus 20.3 in its forecast for July, 0.3 points weaker than in June. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected the gauge to be a stronger minus 19.0.
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