{"id":188462,"date":"2025-01-12T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-german-factory-orders-fall-as-economy-struggles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:06:26","slug":"namibia-german-factory-orders-fall-as-economy-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-german-factory-orders-fall-as-economy-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: German Factory Orders Fall As Economy Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>German industrial orders fell 5.4% in November, official data showed yesterday, in the latest sign of the headwinds facing Europe&#8217;s largest economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Weak global demand, fierce competition from China and high energy prices have battered Germany&#8217;s industrial sector, which accounts for about one fifth of its economic output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">November&#8217;s 5.4% fall in factory orders from a month earlier followed a drop of 1.5% in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Orders fell from all parts of the world, the data showed, except in Germany where&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501100430.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German industrial orders fell 5.4% in November, official data showed yesterday, in the latest sign of the headwinds facing Europe&#8217;s largest economy. Weak global demand, fierce competition from China and high energy prices have battered Germany&#8217;s industrial sector, which accounts for about one fifth of its economic output. November&#8217;s 5.4% fall in factory orders from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5762,7329,9140,3957,4706,724,257,6186,254,12928],"class_list":["post-188462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economy","tag-factory","tag-fall","tag-german","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggles"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}