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Switzerland’s 11th-hour phone call with Donald Trump offered the nation a harsh reality check: A trade deal isn’t a deal unless the US president personally closes it.

Die Teuerungsrate im Euroraum hat sich im Juli auf der Zielmarke der Europäischen Zentralbank gehalten. Auch die viel beachtete Kerninflation verharrt auf dem Vormonatswert.

Im Juli waren 359.374 Personen beim Arbeitsmarktservice arbeitslos oder in Schulung gemeldet. Das AMS verzeichnet einen deutlichen Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit bei Frauen

US job growth cooled sharply over the past three months and the unemployment rate rose, showing the labor market is shifting into a lower gear amid widespread economic uncertainty.

Euro-area inflation held at the European Central Bank’s target, supporting the case for officials who say there’s no rush to keep lowering interest rates.

The White House on Thursday released adjusted reciprocal tariff rates covering imports from a range of trading partners, aimed at narrowing trade deficits and raising revenues.

Einen deutlichen Preisauftrieb gab es bei Energiekosten und Industriegütern. Im Vergleich zum Vormonat stieg das Preisniveau voraussichtlich um 0,2 Prozent.

Four months after Donald Trump shocked the world and roiled markets by unveiling a placard full of tariff rates at the White House Rose Garden, his revisions unveiled Thursday generated a more subdued response among investors.

Exclusions reflect conflicting goals: to rip up the rules of global trade while cushioning US consumers. But the process isn’t transparent, and not everybody wins.

The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of underlying inflation accelerated in June to one of the fastest paces this year while consumer spending barely rose, underscoring the dueling forces dividing policymakers over the path of interest rates.

German inflation slowed below the European Central Bank’s 2% target for the first time in 10 months, supporting policymakers’ view that they’ve brought the spike of recent years under control.

Money markets are adding to bets that the European Central Bank will hold interest rates at 2% through to year-end as caution grows surrounding the prospect for easing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Copper rose in London — following a collapse in New York — after US President Donald Trump shocked the metals world by exempting the most widely traded forms of copper from his hotly anticipated import tariffs.

US equity-index futures climbed as strong earnings from megacap tech firms bolstered optimism that corporate profits remain resilient. The dollar steadied after gaining on Federal Reserve holding interest rates.

The US reached a trade agreement with South Korea that will impose a 15% tariff on imports, including autos, and sets up major investment in American energy and shipbuilding.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff threats have put a pin in what many hoped would be a year of recovery for European real estate markets.

US Treasuries extended losses as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck a hawkish tone, putting in doubt the likelihood of an interest-rate cut at the central bank’s September meeting.

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged but downgraded their view of the US economy, a sign policymakers could be edging closer to lowering borrowing costs.

US copper prices collapsed by more than 19% in minutes after US President Donald Trump excluded the most widely imported form of copper from his planned import tariffs.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending the de minimis exemption, applying tariffs to low-value imports from all trading partners.

US companies stepped up hiring in July after a sharp pullback in the previous month, though the pace remained consistent with weaker labor demand.

Nach dem Ausstieg aus dem Pariser Klimaabkommen und der Rückkehr zu fossilen Energieträgern wie Öl und Kohle hat die US-Umweltbehörde EPA am Dienstag offiziell vorgeschlagen, Treibhausgasemissionen nicht mehr als gesundheitsschädlich einzustufen. Sollte der Vorschlag durchgehen, wären die Folgen laut Fachleuten „desaströs“ – schließlich würde dadurch dem Kampf gegen die Klimakrise in den USA die bisherige rechtliche Grundlage entzogen.

President Donald Trump said he would impose a tariff rate of 25% on India starting on Aug. 1 and suggested he would add an additional penalty over the country’s energy purchases from Russia.

Mit der Kritik an Teilzeitbeschäftigung hat Wirtschaftsminister Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer (ÖVP) für Debatten gesorgt. Im ORF-Interview kündigte er den Abbau von steuerlichen Hürden an. Dazu soll es im Herbst ein Konzept geben. Und er schlägt das Einfrieren der Geringfügigkeitsgrenze von 551 Euro vor.

US economic activity rebounded in the second quarter on a modest pickup in consumer spending and a marked drop in imports after a scramble to secure foreign goods earlier in the year.

French economic growth unexpectedly accelerated in the second quarter as inventory building offset weak domestic demand and a drag from trade.

The world economy will keep weakening and remains vulnerable to trade shocks even though it is showing some resilience to Donald Trump’s tariffs, the International Monetary Fund said.

The European Union plans to reduce a major package of financial support to Ukraine by €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) after Kyiv said it had been unable to meet all required reform milestones, said a spokesperson of the bloc’s executive.