Soon after, Mr Trichet oversaw the change to an anti-inflationary franc fort (strong franc) policy, to pave the way for currency union with the strong, low-inflation German mark.
That kind of premium business is what a mainstay of the old printing industry--Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, a low-profile, 152-year-old German press manufacturer--is after.
The notable news was record low yields on German 10-year bonds fetched Wednesday, at 1.31%.
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KfW backs export-oriented firms and small businesses, lending at low rates, and deals with the privatisation of German state-owned enterprises.
The German right-back's low cross was volleyed first time by Vennegoor of Hesselink and goalkeeper Janos Balogh was slow to get down to his left as the ball trickled into the net.
Also, the average yield of DAX stocks is 3.5%, almost three times the yield on the 10-year German government benchmark bond, a factor that could persuade yield-hungry investors deterred by low returns on government bonds to switch from debt to equity.
The euro fell 0.4% to 1.41 against the dollar Monday, and the 10-year German bund fell to a record low yield at 1.92% as prices climbed.
German industry cannot compete with Chinese labour on low-end items, it is argued.
But the German-born Ms. Kruger is actually low key, surprisingly personable and unabashedly brainy equally versed in the European crisis as she is in the history of couture.
But projects such as the Bahnstadt show the energy revolution and European efficiency goals "have put very low energy buildings much more strongly in investors' focus, " said Stephan Sperl, a spokesman for German state lender KfW Bankengruppe, which offers low-interest construction loans for energy-efficient residential buildings.
German 30-year bund yields fell to a record low at a government auction Wednesday.
Ifo's findings on the glum mood among German firms follows data on Tuesday from ZEW indicating German investor confidence had fallen to a six-month low.
The yield on the ten-year German Bund touched 3% last week, an historic low and more than a percentage point below America's comparable bond.
The Greek-German spread went from around 9.50 percentage points to a low of 4.42 within a week.
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The current German idea is not to trim welfare but to subsidise employers who create low-wage jobs.
German coach Joachim Low is also trying to keep politics out of the last-eight clash as his side bid to bag a first major trophy since Euro '96.
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Just when German consumers seem to have recovered their confidence, after years of low wage-growth and worries about jobs and pensions, the government wants to raise value-added tax by three percentage points next January.
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Yields on German 10-year notes fell to 1.175%, a record low, touching 1.123% intraday, while Sweden's 10-year bond yielded 1.166%, according to Tradeweb.
The German carmakers' costs are too high and their brands too valuable to sully with low-budget overtones.
It would surely be run close by the ghastly low-slung British embassy, now, amazingly, disposed of by some salesman of genius to a German telecoms group.
German bunds surged with eth yield sliding by 15 basis points to a seven-month low at 2.67%.
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Citi's Benson believes the German company Wacker Chemie should be least affected by the feed-in tariffs because of its low-cost position in polysilicon, a material used to make solar panels.
Two decades ago, a couple of Canadian vineyards began producing ice wine, a German invention in which frost-bitten grapes are left on the vine until temperatures drop to as low as minus 13 degrees Celsius.
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