[cartan]

Oh, I don’t think so. A pretty good indicator for the state of the German economy is the Ifo Business Climate Index, and that is looking pretty good:

Ifo Business Climate Index Rises Sharply

[steve86]

Those surveys often weight the stock market highly, and the markets are up as a result of central bank interventions and currency finagling, not productivity or profit. The uptick probably is similar to the “false-hope” upticks noted about France.