#dWP-VW.THINKTANK I Q4/2025

Forget valuations. Look out for search-engine hits and fund managers getting fired

President Trump should choose the technocrat over the partisan

The country is too complacent about its export dependence

From Australia to Europe and the US, traders are betting that monetary easing from central banks will slow or stop altogether.

Risks of euro-area inflation easing are at least as significant as those of an acceleration, and the European Central Bank would act if there’s a persistent undershoot of its 2% target, according to Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to widen economic ties in the face of pressure from US President Donald Trump to slam the brakes on an oil trade that surged after the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon called out slow bureaucracy in Europe in a warning that a “weak” continent poses a major economic risk to the US.

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a change in approach to monetary policy at the European Central Bank to boost the single market and protect it from the risks of financial crisis.

Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel is comfortable with investor bets that the European Central Bank’s next interest-rate move will be an increase.

EZB-Direktoriumsmitglied Isabel Schnabel hat erklärt, sie sei bereit, das Amt der Präsidentin zu übernehmen, wenn die Amtszeit von Christine Lagarde in weniger als zwei Jahren endet.

Das Linzer Familienunternehmen Stiglechner mit 140 Tankstellen und 640 Mitarbeitenden steht unmittelbar vor der Insolvenz. Verhandlungen mit einem möglichen Investor und Banken sind gescheitert, berichteten die „Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten“ am Donnerstag (Onlineausgabe). Betroffen seien die Julius Stiglechner GmbH und die Stiglechner Tankstellen GmbH.

Moore Threads Technology Co., a leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker, surged in its Shanghai trading debut after raising 8 billion yuan ($1.13 billion) in the year’s second-largest onshore IPO.

Die Frage nach der Finanzierung der von Bundeskanzler Christian Stocker (ÖVP) angekündigten Energiekostenentlastung von 500 Millionen Euro ist nun geklärt: 200 Millionen Euro sollen vom Verbund kommen, weitere 200 Millionen liefert die Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG), 100 Millionen stammen aus einem noch nicht an den Bund ausgeschütteten Bilanzgewinn aus Dividendenerträgen der Staatsholding ÖBAG, hieß es am Donnerstag in einer Aussendung des Wirtschaftsministeriums.

In time, though, its tankers will find new routes

Communist Party officials think so

Bosses, investors, policymakers—all are fearful of a jobs-pocalypse

Ledgers haven’t been this exciting since the invention of double-entry book-keeping

He was once a right-of-centre tax expert. He has become a partisan hack

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unwieldy ruling alliance with the Social Democrats is facing an existential crisis of its own making that could trigger its demise after only seven months in office.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unwieldy ruling alliance with the Social Democrats is facing an existential crisis of its own making that could trigger its demise after only seven months in office.