Services (Germany):
Business expectations stabilise

In the service sector the business climate worsened for the fourth time in suc-cession. This was due to the less positive judgements of the current situation, whereas the weakening in the optimism regarding the business outlook halted. Turnover again surpassed that of a year ago, but the slight dissatisfaction of the firms with their order stocks increased again. Employment has probably risen, al-though the number of such responses was lower in August.