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Traders priced in higher odds that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates more than twice this year, unleashing gains in the Treasury market, after a gauge of US inflation eased.

The consumer price index was expected to increase 2.5% from a year ago in January, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

After Beijing slammed them shut about a decade ago, the gates have flung open again for Chinese firms to go on overseas acquisition sprees.

The European Central Bank will raise interest rates at least once this year, significantly boosting the euro against the dollar, according to Capital Group, the $3.3 trillion asset manager.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a reordering of the transatlantic relationship as European leaders struggle with the turmoil of Donald Trump’s second term.

Four years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion, the economic, political and security fallout is reverberating far beyond Ukraine’s borders.

OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to extract results from leading US AI models to train the next generation of its breakthrough R1 chatbot, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News.

Wall Street’s fears of business disruption caused by artificial intelligence are turning into a blessing for Asian stocks, fueling demand for the region’s leading chipmakers that dominate the industry’s supply chain.

Bereits seit zehn Jahren plant die Stadt um die U1-Endstation Oberlaa das neue „Wohnquartier Kurbadstraße“. Nun stehen die Bauarbeiten unmittelbar bevor. Neben 600 Wohnungen sind auch ein Nahversorger und ein Kindergarten vorgesehen. Doch es gibt auch Kritik.

January's employment report will arrive alongside critical revisions to monthly jobs data from last year, and some final figures that stretch back to 2024.

Delinquency rates on loans ranging from mortgages to credit cards rose to 4.8% of all outstanding US household debt in the fourth quarter, the highest level since 2017, driven by higher defaults among low-income and young borrowers.

Die beiden chinesischen Autobauer BYD und MG wollen ihre Vertriebs- und Verkaufsnetzwerke in Deutschland deutlich ausweiten, um neue Kunden zu gewinnen und ihre Marktposition zu stärken.

Die führenden Hersteller von Passagierflugzeugen, Airbus und Boeing, dürften in den nächsten Jahren ernsthafte Konkurrenz aus China bekommen. Die Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) drängt mit ihrem Modell C919 auf den Markt. Künftig könnte der Zweikampf über die Lufthoheit bei Mittelstreckenjets zu einem Dreikampf werden, hieß es anlässlich der am Sonntag zu Ende gegangenen Singapore Airshow. Der chinesische Jet ist ein direkter Konkurrent zum Airbus A320 und zur Boeing 737 in einem hart umkämpften Markt.

Europe’s quest for sovereignty in critical infrastructure like power grids and digital networks risks unsustainable asset-price growth in the sector as cash continues to pour in, according to one of Europe’s largest private equity firms.

Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 — a mind-boggling tide of cash earmarked for new data centers and all the gear housed within them.

Die wirtschaftliche Situation in Österreich ist – trotz einer deutlichen Entspannung bei der Inflation – weiter angespannt. Ein Indikator für die Konjunktur ist das Angebot an offenen Stellen. Dieses ging im Vorjahr zum dritten Mal in Folge deutlich zurück, gab die Statistik Austria am Donnerstag bekannt.

Bitcoin whipsawed in a volatile trading session after a selloff that briefly dragged the token to a more than 50% retreat from its October peak.

Europe’s reliance on its two biggest providers of LNG surged to a record last month, stoking concern that the region is still failing to diversify.

The European Union is set to relax emissions-reduction rules for thousands of companies, recalibrating the world’s most rigorous carbon market under pressure from industry and governments concerned about the region’s sinking competitiveness.

Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that’s designed to carry out financial research, days after the company’s push into legal services upended the stocks of legacy software makers.

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged, with President Christine Lagarde downplaying the recent euro rally and again describing inflation as being in a “good place.”

Die Zinspause der Europäischen Zentralbank geht in die Verlängerung. Zum fünften Mal in Folge haben die Währungshüter um EZB-Chefin Christine Lagarde den Leitzins nicht angetastet.

Bitcoin briefly slumped to around $72,000, a level last seen 15 months ago, as a broad risk-off move engulfed global markets.

Silver fell sharply, wiping out a two-day recovery, as the white metal struggled to find a floor following a historic market rout. Gold also declined.

There have been many AI-driven selloffs in the three years since ChatGPT burst into the mainstream. Nothing, though, quite rivals the rout rippling through stock and credit markets this week.

Almost half a trillion dollars has been wiped off cryptocurrencies in less than a week as a selloff led by Bitcoin accelerated.

The Russian government’s oil revenues collapsed to the lowest in more than five years in January as weaker global prices, steeper discounts for the nation’s barrels, and a stronger currency took a toll on the budget.

BYD Co.’s German sales surged more than ten-fold last month as the Chinese automaker continues to expand in Europe’s largest electric-vehicle market.

Stocks seen as vulnerable to disruption from artificial intelligence slid sharply on Tuesday after Anthropic released a tool designed to automate legal work, adding to worries about the impact that AI will have on data services and information businesses.