Germany’s IFO: Industry expects an unprecedented collapse in production

Germany’s influential IFO institute came out with a statement on Thursday, citing that the German industry expects an unprecedented collapse in production.

Its index for industrial production dropped to -51.4 in April, the lowest value since reunification, the IFO reported.

This comes ahead of the March Industrial Production data for Germany, due at 0600 GMT.

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