The European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Thursday (October 30th) that it kept its key interest rates unchanged after its October policy meeting, as expected. This decision leaves the main refinancing operations rate, the marginal lending facility rate, and the deposit facility rate at 2.15%, 2.4%, and 2%, respectively. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to maintain the main refinancing operations rate, the marginal lending facility rate, and the deposit facility rate at 2.15%, 2.4%, and 2%, respectively. The decision will be announced on Thursday at 13:15 GMT. The rate...
U.S. President Donald Trump has urged European Union officials to levy tariffs of up to 100% on China and India as part of a strategy to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a U.S. official and an EU diplomat. Trump made the request during a conference call with EU sanctions envoy David O'Sullivan and other officials, according to the report. Washington signaled it would impose similar duties if Brussels joined the effort, the report said. Both China and India are major buyers of Russian crude and remain key to keeping Moscow's economy afloat as...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday that the preliminary estimate of the Current Employment Statistics (CES) national benchmark revision to total Nonfarm employment for March 2025 is -911,000, or -0.6%. The United States (US) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will publish the 2025 preliminary benchmark revision to the Establishment Survey Data on Tuesday, September 9. The preliminary revision will cover the 12-month period through March 2025 before the final benchmark revision is reported within the employment report of February 2026. "Official establishment survey...
The United States government has already collected tens of billions of dollars from President Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs." But that money and a lot more could end up being refunded if the Supreme Court agrees with lower courts that many of the levies on imports from other countries are illegal. Anywhere between $750 billion to a whopping $1 trillion, warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a declaration filed with the Supreme Court last week. That eye-popping total could include the more than $72 billion in tariff revenue collected so far by U.S. Border and Customs enforcement...
Russian forces attacked a thermal power plant in the Kyiv region as part of an overnight attack, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Monday, triggering local power outages and gas outages. The attack came a day after Moscow's largest airstrike in Ukraine's three-and-a-half-year war. "The goal is clear: to cause even more hardship to the peaceful Ukrainian population, leaving Ukrainian homes, hospitals, kindergartens, and schools without light and heating," the ministry wrote on the Telegram messaging app. It added that rescue teams and technicians were working at the site on Monday. The...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday thousands of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under post-war security guarantees, but Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Moscow would regard them as legitimate targets to attack. Their comments underlined the gulf between Kyiv and Moscow as Western pessimism mounts over prospects for ending Russia's war in Ukraine quickly, with U.S. President Donald Trump expressing growing frustration with Moscow by saying Russia appeared "lost" to "deepest, darkest China." French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that 26...
Asia-Pacific markets traded higher, tracking Wall Street gains overnight.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.41% after hitting a fresh record high on Thursday, while the Topix added 0.61%. South...
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...
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to cut tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on illegal fentanyl trade, resuming purchases of...