Germany’s wind generation is forecast to plunge this week but the price effect will likely be damped by lower-than-usual demand during the holiday period.

The suspect in the German car-ramming attack that killed five and injured more than 200 on Friday has been identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a self-described member of the “liberal opposition” to Saudi Arabia who has voiced strong anti-Islamic and anti-immigration views.

The suspect in Magdeburg's Christmas market car-ramming attack appeared in front of a judge on Saturday and was remanded in custody.

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market.

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, killing a child and four women and leaving hundreds injured.

Germany's automakers aren't out of the woods yet, with financial issues stemming from China causing Audi and VW to reexamine their production facility needs.

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Magdeburg residents laid flowers and other tributes near the site of a Friday car attack on a Christmas market that left five people dead, including a nine year-old boy, and 200 injured. (AP Video shot by Axel Gerke)