Investing.com - German economic sentiment deteriorated to the lowest level in 12 months in October, as concerns over the ongoing Volkswagen (DE:VOWG) scandal coupled with worries over the health of the global economy weighed, industry data showed on Tuesday.
In a report, the ZEW Centre for Economic Research said that its index of German economic sentiment fell by 10.2 points to 1.9 this month from September’s reading of 12.1. Analysts had expected the index to fall by 6.1 points to 6.0 in October.
The Current Conditions Index tumbled to 55.2 this month from 67.5 in September, worse than expectations for a reading of 64.7.
Meanwhile, the index of euro zone economic sentiment declined to 30.1 in October from 33.3 a month earlier, in line with forecasts.
On the index, a level above 0.0 indicates optimism, a level below 0.0 indicates pessimism.
EUR/USD was trading at 1.1368 from around 1.1382 ahead of the release of the data, while EUR/GBP was at 0.7461 from 0.7466 earlier.
Meanwhile, European stock markets were broadly lower. Germany's DAX slumped 1.25%, the EURO STOXX 50 fell 1.3%, France’s CAC 40 dropped 1.5%, while London’s FTSE 100 declined 0.75%.