Initial calculations by the Federal Statistical Office indicate that price-adjusted gross domestic product in Germany rose by 2.2% last year. The strong growth on the demand side was broadly based and was supported by both external and domestic stimuli. In 2017, employment reached its highest level since German reunification.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, advocated strengthening inclusive growth. Leaving everything to the markets has failed, he said in a lecture held at the invitation of the Bundesbank at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Die Deutsche Bundesbank hat im Geschäftsjahr 2012 einen Jahresüberschuss von 664 Mio € erzielt, nach 643 Mio € im Vorjahr. Dieser wurde gemäß § 27 Nr. 2 Bundesbankgesetz am 12. März 2013 in voller Höhe an den Bund abgeführt.

“The past becomes the future – the Bundesbank’s Central Office in Frankfurt am Main” takes a close look at the architecture of the building, setting it in historical context.

Stronger regulation, digitalisation and low interest rates are challenges for the banking-sector, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann writes in a guest contribution for the Börsen-Zeitung.