The Bundesbank’s October 2018 Monthly Report comments on trends in state government finances, the implementation of the debt brake and future budgetary surveillance. It also analyses the macroeconomic impact of uncertainty as well as the activities of multinationals against the backdrop of national economic statistics. Furthermore, the report contains an article on the growing importance of exchange-traded funds on the financial markets.

The monthly report contains: Macroeconomic development of earnings and costs since the early 1990s, Reports from the Economic Research Centre, Development in the external economic relations of the EU accession countries in central and eastern Europe, Recent tax revenue trends.