forecast in september fears that europe's biggest economy could stumble into a recession the german statistics office says seasonally adjusted exports increased by one and a half percent on the month their biggest increase since november 27th team data published earlier this feat painted a mixed picture of the industrial sector with a panel of german economists advise in the government saying germany's long term upswing had come to an end. the collapse of the berlin wall quickly led to german reunification but 30 years later the division between east and west remains people living in the former east to work longer are paid less and have an overall lower quality of life compared to their western. counterparts a feller's and streamed across the berlin wall in 1989 the economic differences are stark and west germany 62000000 people lived in one of the world's strongest economies in the east the population was a quarter of that and the economy was only 110th as strong these economic differences remain none of germany's dax 30 blue chip companies are headquartered in the former east best these companies r

september elaine fears that europe's biggest economy could stumble into our recession the german statistics office says seasonally adjusted its 40 increase by one and a half percent of the month the biggest increase instead of a 27 data published earlier this week painted a mixed picture of the industrial sector with a panel of economists are buzzing the government saying germany's long term upswing and come to an end. let's go live to frankfurt to chelsea delaney josie alledge of a surprise is this used up new down to. it's certainly a surprise and certainly relief given all of the really gloomy data that's been coming out of germany over the past several months looking into the route to the details of the report sort of the hardest hit areas of german of the german economy seem to have rebounded so trade to the u.k. was a lot higher trade to the u.s. was a lot higher there was a continued decline in exports to china but i think seeing increases in exports to china or to the u.s. and the u.k. was definitely a bright spot also there was an increase in exports to be to the end that autos that secto

september dampening fears that europe's biggest economy could stumble into a recession the german statistics office said seasonally adjusted exports increased by one and a half percent on the month was their biggest increase since november 2017 data published earlier this week painted a mixed picture of the industrial sector with a panel of economist advising the government saying germany's long term upswing had to come to an end. and for more i'm joined by chelsea delaney in frankfurt chelsea german exports posting the biggest rise in almost 2 years how big a surprise is that. it's certainly a surprise certainly relieved it's about a percentage point more than economists had been expecting looking at the details of the report this is really driven by increase exports to the u.k. and the u.s. which both of those have been struggling with bracks and trade tensions they did see a decline in exports to china and another bright spot of this report was a 6 percent increase in auto and vehicle exports which has been really hit hard by the trade tensions so i think at the same time. it's one month it's on