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After weeks of threats, a North American trade war has erupted. Businesses and investors are bracing for the fallout.

Consumer-price growth returning to the European Central Bank’s target will allow policymakers to stop restricting economic growth via its interest rates, according to Governing Council member Klaas Knot.

The dollar surged and stocks plunged after US President Trump’s tariffs unleashed a fresh wave of chaos in global markets.

US President Donald Trump ramped up his tariff threats to the European Union while saying he would speak with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, as stock markets sank following a hectic weekend that saw prospects for a trade war turn into reality.

The US labor market probably kicked off 2025 with another month of solid growth, while highly anticipated annual revisions are likely to showcase a noticeably more moderate pace of hiring over the past few years.

President Donald Trump unleashed the first salvo of his tariff war, with general levies of 25% on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China — the start of a wave of promised trade barrages against foreign allies and adversaries alike.

Donald Trump hat sein Ziel bekräftigt, am Samstag 25%-Zölle auf Importe aus Kanada und Mexiko einzuführen - und damit Kurseinbrüche bei den Währungen der US-Handelspartner bewirkt.

Die heimischen Touristiker und ihre Gäste haben 2024 ein Rekordjahr hingelegt. Die Nächtigungen in Hotels, Pensionen und Ferienwohnungen stiegen im Vergleich zu 2023 um 2,1 Prozent auf 154,29 Millionen und übertrafen damit den Höchstwert des Jahres 2019 um ein Prozent, wie aus den aktuellen Zahlen der Statistik Austria am Freitag hervorging. An Bedeutung gewann vor allem der Städtetourismus.

Europe’s Stoxx 600 index headed for its best month in two years as strong earnings reports burnished the appeal of the region’s stocks over pricier Wall Street equities. The dollar gained ahead of President Donald Trump’s weekend tariff announcement.

Traders are ramping up bets for a deeper divergence between European and US interest rates, setting the euro on a clear path for further weakness.

Der Brexit ist am Freitag fünf Jahre alt: Das Vereinigte Königreich trat am 31. Jänner 2020 aus der Europäischen Union aus. Nach dem Referendum 2016, in dem 52 Prozent für den Austritt stimmten, folgten viel innenpolitischer Streit, mehrere Wechsel an der britischen Regierungsspitze und große Unstimmigkeiten mit Brüssel, wie der noch nie da gewesene Schritt umgesetzt werden sollte. Und auch heute noch sind die Auswirkungen der Turbulenzen spürbar.

DeepSeek’s emergence roiled markets earlier this week, but investors see limited scope for the Chinese artificial intelligence startup to dent the performance of the Magnificent Seven, the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey showed.

The nationalist lurch in Slovakia, Austria and Croatia throws into question support for Kyiv just as Donald Trump seeks an end to the war.

The European Central Bank may stop describing its monetary policy stance as “restrictive” at its next decision in March, according to people familiar with the Governing Council’s debate.

Trump's second exit from the Paris Agreement is coming at a far shakier time for climate action, with rising populism and corporate retreat adding bigger risk to the US pullback.

Short-dated German bonds headed for their best day in more than two months as traders ramped up wagers on additional interest-rate cuts from the European Central Bank this year.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure to support future artificial intelligence development, days after the frenzy around Chinese upstart DeepSeek cast new doubt on AI spending.

European Union officials are rushing to strengthen their ties as concerns loom that President Donald Trump will try to divide the 27-nation bloc through tariffs.

The US economy expanded at a solid pace at the end of 2024, fueled by a generous tailwind from consumer spending that more than offset drags from a strike at Boeing Co. and much leaner inventory investment.

The EU sees a trade clash as inevitable and has prepared a list of US goods to hit with duties in retaliation.

It’s not a skip, it’s a pause — and maybe an extended one.

France’s economy contracted at the end of last year as tailwinds from the Paris Olympics faded and a government collapse bruised confidence among businesses and consumers.

The European Central Bank is set to lower interest rates for a fifth meeting as inflation that’s nearing the 2% target lets officials further loosen the shackles on the economy.

ESG fund managers are facing one of the toughest moments in the strategy’s history, as investment clients pull record amounts of money.

The Fed is expected to hold rates steady at its first committee meeting of 2025, bracing for new policies and criticism from Trump.