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business in europe's largest economy we can speak now to carson just the chief economist germany karsten thank you for joining us we have some numbers coming in today showing that retail figures have actually been very strong thanks to online sales so what impact is this prolonged winter lockdown actually having on the german economy. it's just so hard to come up with numbers i think what we know is that. hotels restaurants travel cultures all this actors that have already been hit by the lock down by the been damaged throughout 2020 will also be hit the most this is this time around. when you look at manufacturing sector for example it has done quite well in the 4th quarter and also at the start of the new year here it will really depend on whether schools will reopen are not because we have i think something like like 15000000 parents of of smaller students that if they have to stay at home again this will have an impact on growth so i think in some what you can tell right now is that it's going to be a very weak start to the year 2021 probably another contraction a mild contraction of

on business in europe's largest economy we can speak to carson just the chief economist at germany karsten thank you for joining us we have some numbers coming in today showing that retail figures have actually been very strong thanks to online sales so what impact is this prolonged winter lockdown actually having on the german economy. it's just so hard to come up with numbers i think what we know is that. hotels restaurants travel cultures all this act as they have already been hate by the lock down by the been damaged throughout 2020 will also be hit the most this is this time around. when you look at manufacturing sector for example it has done quite well in the 4th quarter and also at the start of the new year here it will really depend on whether schools will reopen are not because we have i think something like like 15000000 parents of of smaller students that if they have to stay at home again this will have an impact on growth so i think in some what you can tell right now is that it's going to be a very weak start to the year 2021 probably another contraction a mild contraction o

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