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The “no landing” scenario – a situation where the US economy keeps growing, inflation reignites and the Federal Reserve has little room to cut interest rates – had largely disappeared as a bond-market talking point in recent months.

The German government expects the nation’s economy to shrink by 0.2% this year, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported ahead of an official estimate due on Wednesday, without saying how it got the information.

President Joe Biden sought to discourage Israel from attacking Iran’s oil fields, as the US looks to shape Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to a ballistic-missile barrage and keep the region from descending into all-out war.

The world-beating rally in Chinese stocks is failing to convince many global fund managers and strategists.

Mohamed El-Erian says the Federal Reserve needs to renew its focus on its fight against rising prices after September’s surprisingly hot jobs report served as a reminder that “inflation is not dead.”

The European Union voted on Friday to impose tariffs as high as 45% on electric vehicles from China in a move set to increase trade tensions with Beijing.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates last month was a mistake after new data showed that US job growth last month topped all estimates.

Surprisingly strong hiring in September has taken pressure off the Federal Reserve by reducing worries over the US labor market, giving policymakers room to continue cutting interest rates at a more gradual pace in coming months.

An interest-rate cut that European Central Bank officials deemed unlikely just three weeks ago now seems a near certainty when they next set borrowing costs on Oct. 17.

Health care has been a key driver of post-pandemic employment growth in the US, accounting for about one in five new jobs across the country since 2021. Now a hiring slowdown in that sector is making the broader labor market look increasingly shaky.

At 11:12 p.m. in Shenzhen on Sunday, China’s least affordable city eased rules for homebuyers. Less than an hour later, the first batch of prospective customers showed up at a sales center for a suburban project by local developer Excellence Group.

Catch up: Israel promises revenge; Vance-Walz debate

US-Notenbankchef Jerome Powell sieht die amerikanische Wirtschaft noch immer auf einem soliden Fundament und hat erklärt, die Fed werde die Leitzinsen “im Laufe der Zeit” weiter herabsetzen.

BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said the market is pricing too many interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve given the US economy continues to grow.

With the last traces of the global inflation shock fading, the shift toward lower borrowing costs is about to maintain momentum as economies tread toward a new year fraught with unknowns.

Christine Lagarde said the European Central Bank is becoming more optimistic that it will be able to get inflation under control, and will reflect on that at its October interest-rate decision.

China’s overseas investment hit a record high as its companies look to build more factories abroad, potentially helping to ease criticism of Beijing’s export policies.

A funding squeeze is putting the city’s businesses under pressure amid China’s slowdown and weak consumer demand.

Beijing is stepping up pressure on Chinese companies to buy locally produced artificial intelligence chips instead of Nvidia Corp. products, part of the nation’s effort to expand its semiconductor industry and counter US sanctions.

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Die Jahresteuerung lag im September in Frankreich nur noch bei 1,5 und in Spanien bei 1,7 Prozent.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel appears to have become more concerned about the euro-zone economy.

Germany’s gross domestic product will shrink slightly this year, new forecasts predicted, the latest in a rash of negative reports that suggest the outlook for Europe’s biggest economy remains dire.

China is considering injecting up to 1 trillion yuan ($142 billion) of capital into its biggest state banks to increase their capacity to support the struggling economy, according to people familiar with the matter.

Traders are growing increasingly confident the European Central Bank will cut interest rates again next month as evidence mounts that the economy is weakening.

US consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in September by the most in three years on concerns about the labor market and the outlook for the broader economy.

Tuesday’s hastily arranged briefing delivered a sweeping policy package. Economists say reversing the slump will require much more.

China’s central bank unleashed an unprecedented blitz of policy support for the economy, as authorities made their boldest swing so far to hit this year’s annual growth target of about 5%, after a flurry of Wall Street banks downgraded their forecasts.

A handful of Federal Reserve officials on Monday left open the door to additional large interest-rate cuts, noting that current rates still weigh heavily on the US economy.

The euro area’s private-sector economy shrank for the first time since March, with the end of France’s Olympic boost and a deepening manufacturing downturn heightening concerns that the region’s recovery has run out of steam.