Article: German Food Industry Floundering Under Asian and Russian EconomicCrises.

The economic slowdown in Asia and the fiscal collapse in Russia have weakened the German equities markets severely, says a recent agricultural attache report from USDA. The former sense of economic well-being, the "wealth effect" from a buoyant stock market, now has almost completely evaporated, and been replaced at least temporarily with a sense of concern in many quarters.

During recent years, the German food industry expanded its trade in the central and eastern European (CEE) region rising to a total value of a little over $2 billion in 1997. Through June 1998, German food exports (major export items include confectionery sweets and dairy products) to Russia ...

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