Iran has reached an agreement in principle to hold talks with the UK, France and Germany over its nuclear program, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The talks are expected to take place on Friday and will be at the deputy foreign minister level, according to Iran's state-run IRIB News. The discussions will be separate from the indirect talks with the US, the outlet reported. The three European countries, or E3, are parties to the original nuclear agreement, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which US President Donald Trump abandoned in...
Top U.S. and Chinese officials will sit down in London on Monday for talks aimed at defusing the high-stakes trade dispute between the two superpowers that has widened in recent weeks beyond tit-for-tat tariffs to export controls over goods and components critical to global supply chains. At a still-undisclosed venue in London, the two sides will try to get back on track with a preliminary agreement struck last month in Geneva that had briefly lowered the temperature between Washington and Beijing and fostered relief among investors battered for months by U.S. President Donald Trump's...
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday (02/05), US nonfarm payrolls rose to 139K in April. This figure is up from the estimate of 138K. Meanwhile, Average Hourly Earnings m/m data increased by 0.4% and Unemployment Rate is not change at 4.2% Source: Newsmaker
Both the STOXX 50 and STOXX 600 hovered around the flatline on Friday, as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of further developments in trade talks between US President Trump and Chinese President Xi. The two leaders had a call yesterday and agreed to resume trade negotiations, but the absence of concrete progress kept markets on edge. Meanwhile, traders were also awaiting the latest US jobs report. In Europe, the ECB cut interest rates as widely expected, but President Lagarde signaled that the rate-cutting cycle may have reached its end. On the data front, exports and industrial...
US President Donald Trump said he may need to let Ukraine and Russia "fight for a while" before brokering a peace deal and hinted he might be willing to impose new sanctions on the two countries if he decides the conflict is not going to end. "Sometimes you let them fight for a while," Trump said during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday. "You see it in hockey, you see it in sports, the referee lets them fight for a few seconds, lets them fight for a while before you pull them apart." Trump said he would be willing to punish both countries if he did not believe...
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to resume trade talks, and the American leader said they resolved a dispute over rare earth exports that has been at the heart of tensions between the world's two largest economies. Trump acknowledged Thursday that trade relations with China had "gotten off track a little bit" but said now "we're in very good shape with China and a trade deal." He posted earlier on social media that "there should be no more questions about the complexity of the rare earths." "We're getting some points straight, mostly with the rare earth...
China's official NBS Manufacturing PMI increased to 49.7 in June 2025 from May's 49.5, matching market expectations while marking the third consecutive month of contraction in factory activity.
It...
Both the STOXX 50 and STOXX 600 hovered around the flatline on Friday, as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of further developments in trade talks between US President Trump and Chinese...
Iran has reached an agreement in principle to hold talks with the UK, France and Germany over its nuclear program, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
The talks are expected to take...