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China’s policymakers plan to sell a record 3 trillion yuan ($411 billion) of special treasury bonds in 2025, Reuters reported on Tuesday, a move aimed at bolstering the slowing economy.

New voters are set to rotate onto the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate-setting committee just as renewed inflation concerns inject a fresh layer of complexity into the central bank’s decision making.

Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with making the US government more efficient come January, has zeroed in on the Federal Reserve.

The European Central Bank is nearing its consumer-price target but must remain alert to lingering dangers in some sectors, according to President Christine Lagarde.

Chinese automakers captured their smallest share of Europe’s electric-vehicle market in eight months, after new tariffs added as much as 35% to the cost of importing cars to the region.

The euro-area economy will pick up less momentum next year than previously foreseen and only expand slightly more strongly than in 2024, according to a Bloomberg survey.

Emerging markets-focused investors have had little to celebrate over the past year. Or for that matter, over the past decade. Now the prospect of Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars has some considering abandoning them altogether.

One of China’s leading developers is now on authorities’ radar for default risk. A major Hong Kong builder is asking lenders to extend loans. Another industry peer is selling an iconic but largely empty mall in Beijing.

His second term doesn’t start for a month, but Donald Trump is already sending shock waves around the world.

Panama’s president rebuffed Donald Trump’s threat to reimpose US control over the Panama Canal, saying its shipping tolls aren’t inflated and that sovereignty over the waterway isn’t negotiable.

Switzerland and the European Union agreed on a deal to ensure the country’s access to the bloc’s single market, hitting an unofficial end-of-year deadline after lengthy and intense talks.

The Bank of Russia held its key interest rate at a record-high 21%, surprising most analysts who’d expected policymakers to opt for another big hike to try to tame persistent inflation.

President-elect Donald Trump warned the European Union that its exports will get hit with US tariffs if its member states don’t buy more American oil and gas.

President Vladimir Putin said he’s willing to hold talks with US President-elect Donald Trump, though he said they haven’t spoken in more than four years.

China connected one of the world’s largest ever solar projects in an effort to curb coal consumption and reign in emissions.

Federal Reserve officials capped 2024 with a third-straight interest-rate cut and a strong signal that inflation concerns are back in the fore.

President-elect Donald Trump said he opposes a proposed funding bill and threatened to oust fellow Republicans if they accepted legislation that didn’t include his demands, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown later this week.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda opened up the possibility of waiting longer for his next interest rate hike in comments that lowered expectations of a January move and hammered the yen.

The US Treasury market tumbled as traders took the Federal Reserve’s revised forecasts as reason to slash their expectations for interest-rate reductions next year.

Chinese banks raised new mortgage costs for the first time in three years, new data from a research firm shows, as narrowing margins are dragged down by a persistent property slump and slowdown in the world’s No. 2 economy.

China ramped up support for its currency via the daily reference rate after the Federal Reserve’s caution over future interest rate cuts boosted the dollar and sent the offshore yuan to a one-year low.

The European Central Bank should keep lowering borrowing costs at the current pace as inflation is increasingly under control, according to Governing Council member Gediminas Simkus.

Central banks across Asia face a difficult decision after the Federal Reserve’s hawkish cut — stage a costly fight back against dollar strength, or stand by and watch their currencies falter.

Powell rebuffs notion that tariffs weighed on calculations for fewer cuts, but a showdown may be looming.

Volkswagen AG and labor leaders are moving closer to an agreement to restructure the automaker’s namesake brand without shuttering factories in Germany, according to people familiar with the matter.