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The world’s top commodity traders are rushing to ship copper to the US from as far afield as Asia as Donald Trump’s threat of import tariffs on the metal creates a huge opportunity for profit.

Investors in US government bonds are starting to bet the Federal Reserve will soon need to pivot from worrying about sticky inflation to fretting about slowing economic growth.

Investors yanked more than $1 billion from spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day outflow since the cohort’s debut last January.

Nicht nur der Bau von Einfamilienhäusern ist rückläufig, die Krise in der Bauwirtschaft schlägt auch massiv auf gemeinnützige Bauträger und die gewerbliche Immobilienwirtschaft durch. Die Branche erwartet für heuer einen Rückgang bei neuen Wohnungen um satte 40 Prozent.

Mercedes-Benz Group AG and its subsidiaries are planning to cut up to 15% of the automaker’s workforce in China, mainly within its financing and sales units, as the German manufacturer faces intensifying competition in the world’s largest car market, according to two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday gave a series of apparently contradictory answers about his plans to enact tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as the European Union.

Die EU-Kommission hat am Mittwoch ihr Maßnahmenpaket zur Förderung der Industrie in Europa vorgestellt. An einer Vielzahl politischer Schalter soll in den kommenden Jahren gedreht werden, um die Industrie zugleich emissionsärmer und wettbewerbsfähiger zu machen. Zudem präsentierte die Kommission aber auch Pläne, um Nachhaltigkeitsregeln abzuschwächen.

The European Union’s resolve to take on the might of Silicon Valley is set to be tested to the limit after Donald Trump threatened retaliation for fines that hurt some of America’s biggest companies.

Mercedes-Benz Group AG is developing a new combustion engine, becoming the latest automaker to slow its electric-car push in response to sluggish sales.

European Union member states need to increase defense outlays on a national level first, according to Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe, as the bloc looks for ways to take more control of its own security.

Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched near the level needed for nuclear weapons surged more than 50% in the last three months, defying mounting pressure on the Islamic Republic to curb its atomic activities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy aims to meet with Donald Trump in Washington this week to sign an agreement giving the US control over half of the war-battered country’s natural resources, according to people familiar with the plans.

China plans to start re-capitalizing three of its biggest banks in coming months, according to people familiar with the matter, following through on a broad stimulus package unveiled last year to shore up the struggling economy.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive action directing the Commerce Department to examine possible copper tariffs, the latest in a string of measures aimed at imposing sector-specific levies that could reshape global supply chains.

The club of finance ministers and central bankers who’ve steered the global economy through a quarter century of market meltdowns, recessions, wars and the pandemic meet this week facing new headwinds to their goal of broader prosperity — tariffs and the imminent threat of trade wars.

The European Banking Federation is warning that the sheer scale of a proposed rollback of the bloc’s ESG rules will make it harder for lenders to analyze credit risk.

The European Union will unveil a plan to improve the bloc’s competitiveness as its industries struggle to balance ambitious climate targets and increasing rivalry from the US and China.

Ukraine has agreed with the US on a deal to jointly develop its natural resources, people familiar with the matter said, a move that could ease recent tension with President Donald Trump and advance his administration’s goal of a ceasefire with Russia.

President Donald Trump said he is starting a program to offer residency and a path to citizenship to investors who pay $5 million, offering a new avenue for legal immigration even as he carries out a sweeping crackdown on undocumented migrants.

Mit Blick auf das weitere Aufwärtspotenzial an der Wall Street wächst laut Bank of America bei Anlegern die “Skepsis”, während die Aktienbörsen in Europa und China Stärke zeigen.

The European Central Bank is approaching a new regime in which monetary policy no longer constrains the economy and will base future decisions on data as they arrive, according to Governing Council member Joachim Nagel.

The European Central Bank should lower borrowing costs cautiously as its current monetary-policy stance may no longer be holding back the region’s economy, according to Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel.

Bitcoin tumbled below $90,000 to hit the lowest level since mid-November, as the rally that followed Donald Trump’s election to the White House reverses under the weight of his trade tariffs and a string of industry setbacks.

Whisper it, but signs are starting to emerge across global financial markets that the weight of Donald Trump’s multi-pronged policy agenda is becoming a bit too much to bear.

A key measure of euro-area pay growth eased at the end of 2024, supporting European Central Bank plans to keep cutting interest rates as inflation slows.

Shares of gold miners are soaring in the early months of 2025, as risks around inflation and geopolitics push analysts to ramp up their outlook for the precious metal, a classic haven asset.

Donald Trump’s administration is sketching out tougher versions of US semiconductor curbs and pressuring key allies to escalate their restrictions on China’s chip industry, an early indication the new US president plans to expand efforts that began under Joe Biden to limit Beijing’s technological prowess.