India has surged to become the second-biggest supplier of restricted critical technologies to Russia, US and European officials said, highlighting the challenge in efforts to choke off exports fueling President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Hedge funds fled bearish bets against Brent crude prices at the fastest pace in nearly eight years as war risks ratcheted up.

Investors and analysts are expecting China to deploy as much as 2 trillion yuan ($283 billion) in fresh fiscal stimulus as Beijing seeks to shore up the world’s second-biggest economy and boost confidence.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said he doesn’t see convincing evidence that the economy is overheating despite a gangbusters September jobs report.

Während viele EU-Länder vor allem Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung von Migration setzen, will Spanien einen ganz anderen Weg gehen. Premierminister Pedro Sanchez kündigte am Mittwoch Maßnahmen an, die es Einwanderinnen und Einwanderern erleichtern sollen, sich in Spanien niederzulassen. Gleichzeitig sollen Integrationsmaßnahmen verstärkt werden. Hintergrund ist die boomende spanische Wirtschaft.

The European Central Bank will speed up interest-rate cuts over the months ahead to bolster the economy — taking borrowing costs to levels that no longer restrict demand by the end of 2025, according to a Bloomberg survey.

European Central Bank officials were keen to maintain flexibility on the speed of interest-rate reductions with inflation not fully defeated and risks to the euro-zone economy building, an account of their last policy decision showed.

Three Federal Reserve policymakers on Thursday were unfazed by a higher-than-forecast September inflation report, suggesting the US central bank can continue lowering interest rates, but a fourth hinted he may favor a pause at their next meeting.

Catch up: Israel strikes central Beirut; Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton

Catch up: Israel strikes central Beirut; Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton

China has asked its financial institutions to beef up monitoring of the nation’s wealth management products, people familiar with the matter said, after investors pulled some $149 billion to chase a rally in stocks.

Underlying US inflation rose more than forecast in September, representing a pause in the recent progress toward moderating price pressures.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is unlikely to win another big interest-rate cut from his policy committee so long as the labor market holds up.

Wages offered to new hires in China declined after two straight quarters of gains, in a sign of a weakening labor market that’s exacerbating persisting deflation and weighing on economic growth.

The European Union and China must continue talks to avoid an escalation of protectionist measures that would lead to a “lose-lose” situation for both economies, Spain’s top economic official said.

China’s central bank has set up a swap facility to provide liquidity to institutional investors to buy stocks, part of a broad stimulus package announced earlier that ignited a rally in equities.

Economists anticipate that key measures of inflation decelerated in September, in spite of price pressures in some categories of goods including used cars.

Catch up: Hurricane Milton makes landfall; Biden and Netanyahu speak

„Die aktuelle Budgetsituation ist echt nicht leicht“, hat Fiskalrat-Präsident Christoph Badelt am Mittwoch die Ausgangslage für die künftige Regierung zusammengefasst. In einer Pressekonferenz forderte er gemeinsam mit dem Zentrum für Verwaltungsforschung (KDZ) und dem Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut (WIFO) rasche Systemreformen. Erneut wurden Zweifel an der Sinnhaftigkeit des Klimabonus für alle laut.

The European Central Bank will very probably lower interest rates next week and will loosen monetary policy again at future meetings depending on progress combating price rises, Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said.

European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kazimir offered the only real resistance so far to a third cut of the year in interest rates next week — despite that outcome looking more and more assured.

The German economy is likely to experience another year of contraction with the US election posing an additional risk to Europe’s growth, according to Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel.

China said it would hold a briefing on fiscal policy on Saturday as investors look for additional measures to stimulate the world’s No. 2 economy.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said risks to the central bank’s employment and inflation goals are now closer to equal.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins said policymakers should use a careful, data-dependent approach as they lower interest rates to help preserve the strength of the US economy.

A ranking of 133 countries shows that the global innovation boom is stalling

Die Sanierung von kikaLeiner schreitet langsamer voran als geplant. Die heimische Möbelkette hat die Zahl der Beschäftigten im Laufe des Jahres von 1.900 auf 1.400 reduziert, wie die Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten (Mittwochausgabe) berichten.

Eine Militärbasis im Süden Kambodschas deutet darauf hin, dass China seinen Einfluss in Ländern in der Region vergrößern will. Peking ließ dort in den vergangenen Jahren einen eigenen Pier bauen. Laut aktuellen Satellitenbildern liegen dort zwei chinesische Kriegsschiffe vor Anker, wie die BBC am Dienstag schrieb. Kambodscha, das noch vor wenigen Jahren eng mit den USA zusammenarbeitete, beschwichtigte – doch Nachbarstaaten sind besorgt.