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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

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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.