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German inflation accelerated more than anticipated last month, backing the European Central Bank’s plans to keep cutting interest rates only gradually.

Bitcoin pushed above $100,000 for the first time in two weeks as the largest digital asset regains momentum with Donald Trump’s US Election victory set to be ratified.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it no longer sees gold reaching $3,000 an ounce by the end of the year, pushing the forecast to mid-2026 on expectations the Federal Reserve will make fewer rate cuts.

Global central bankers are poised to cut borrowing costs further in 2025, but only warily — and with a keen eye on the policies of incoming US President Donald Trump.

The UK surpassed Germany to become Europe’s largest electric-car market as the country’s EV sales mandate helped it buck a demand slowdown elsewhere in the region.

Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are considering a tariff plan that would apply to all countries but be limited to specific critical imports, the Washington Post reported, citing three people familiar with the discussions who it didn’t identify.

Markets are uniformly expecting big gains in US stocks, but a lot depends on what happens in the real world.

US stocks and the dollar will be the biggest beneficiaries of American economic growth set to be boosted by Donald Trump’s policies, according to the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey.

Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a deal to provide secure telecommunications for the nation’s government — the largest such project in Europe, people with knowledge of the matter said Sunday.

A looming election, unemployment edging higher and an automotive industry in crisis may not seem like a recipe for German corporate success this year, but a look at earnings projections tells a different story.

Äußerst positiv fällt die Bilanz der Weihnachtsferien in den Salzburger Skigebieten aus. In manchen Hotels übertreffen die Buchungszahlen heuer sogar jene des Rekordwinters 2023. Die hervorragende Buchungslage habe sich allerdings erst relativ kurzfristig ergeben.

Faster euro-zone inflation in data due next week is likely to remind policymakers that while their 2% goal might now be in sight, it’s not yet within reach.

The onshore yuan weakened past a level that China had been defending throughout December, opening up room for the managed currency to drop further amid a sluggish economy.

By now you’ve probably heard that the S&P 500’s back-to-back annual gains amounted to the best two-year advance since the late 1990s. But finding an example of a worse end to a year than the one that just occurred requires going back even further in time. To at least 1952, when data first becomes available for comparable returns. Since then, it’s never fallen more than the 2.6% it lost from Christmas to year-end, data compiled by Bespoke Investment Group show. The closing drop marks only the

European gas gained on the first trading day of the year as the loss of a key supply route coincided with freezing temperatures across the north of the region and an unplanned disruption in Norway.

The euro fell to its weakest level versus the dollar in over two years amid concerns about Europe’s economy and monetary policy divergence with the US.

The European Central Bank’s 2% inflation target is in sight, according to President Christine Lagarde.

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China’s gross domestic product is expected to expand around 5% for the full year of 2024, President Xi Jinping said, signaling the world’s second-largest economy is on track to meet its official target.

China may start selling its products to Europe at discounted rates if the US starts a trade war by imposing new tariffs, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot.

Das Wirtschaftsjahr 2024 war österreichweit von zahlreichen Insolvenzen geprägt. Die KTM-Pleite und der Zerfall der Signa-Gruppe waren nur zwei von vielen. Insgesamt gab es heuer mehr als 6.500 Unternehmensinsolvenzen in ganz Österreich. Auch viele burgenländische Unternehmen waren betroffen.

The European Central Bank could consider waiting longer before its next rate cut if inflation risks from energy prices or a stronger depreciation of the euro materialize, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann.

From protecting biodiversity to tackling plastic pollution, meeting after meeting this year ended in disappointment.

Europe is about to lose a chunk of its gas supplies, with a key transit deal between Moscow and Kyiv expiring Dec. 31. Unless an alternative arrangement can be made in the final days of the year, the halt of Russian flows via Ukraine will present a slew of challenges to an already tight market:

US and European companies are frontloading orders and weighing price hikes while Chinese factories hunt for buyers elsewhere