BERLIN (Reuters) -The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring after Reuters reported the likely next government was mulling a fiscal sea change for Europe's biggest economy.
Defence contractors including Thyssenkrupp, Hensoldt, Renk, Rheinmetall, BAE Systems and Leonardo saw their shares jump by double-digit percentages on news that the election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats were contemplating debt-financed defence and infrastructure funds jointly worth just under a trillion euros.
