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Catch up: Israel vows to fight on; Japan’s new prime minister

A dormant construction site visible from the back door of Berlin’s grand Hotel Adlon is emblematic of the boom turned bust in Europe’s real estate markets, but investors that gathered recently at the five-star establishment have started to look past symbols like the hole in the ground across the street and toward a nascent recovery.

With less than a week until a dockworker strike could shutter every major container port on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts, port employers and the union disagree on a range of issues — including whether they’re even negotiating.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel appears to have become more concerned about the euro-zone economy.

France’s new foreign minister said his country supports a European Union plan to impose tariffs on electric vehicles produced in China given the subsidies Beijing has used to maintain dominance in the sector.

Chinese stocks have been on a tear, with the Nasdaq Golden Dragon Index soaring 19% in the last four days, and the shares should be a key part of investors’ plans once the US election is over, according to Scott Rubner, managing director for global markets and tactical specialist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

China’s top leaders ramped up efforts to revive growth with pledges to support fiscal spending and stabilize the beleaguered property sector, giving new momentum to stimulus measures aimed at arresting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment insurance have been defying expectations and hovering near historically low levels, but they’re not a good indicator of the state of the labor market right now, according to a Bloomberg Economics analysis.

Germany’s gross domestic product will shrink slightly this year, new forecasts predicted, the latest in a rash of negative reports that suggest the outlook for Europe’s biggest economy remains dire.

China is considering injecting up to 1 trillion yuan ($142 billion) of capital into its biggest state banks to increase their capacity to support the struggling economy, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Swiss National Bank cut borrowing costs by a quarter point at a third straight meeting and warned of more to come if needed in its attempt to contain the strength of the franc.

A massive trade was made in the short-term interest rates market Wednesday.

One week before Federal Reserve officials gathered in Washington this month, they were split over how fast to lower interest rates.

OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on the need for massive data centers that could each use as much power as entire cities, framing the unprecedented expansion as necessary to develop more advanced artificial intelligence models and compete with China.

Applications to refinance mortgages surged for a second week as more Americans capitalized on the cheapest borrowing costs in two years.

China’s central bank lowered the interest rate charged on its one-year policy loans by the most on record, kicking off a sweeping program to revive confidence in the world’s second-largest economy.

Softening US economic data spurred the Federal Reserve into decisive action this week to support growth. An even weaker set of data out of China has left investors puzzled why its government hasn’t also mounted a concerted response.

The US economy looks on track for a soft landing as monetary policy cooled inflation without tipping the economy into recession, according to the chief of the International Monetary Fund, who also credited the world’s biggest economy for helping support global growth as other nations slowed.

Wetter oder Klima? Das wurde rund um die jüngsten Extremregenfälle intensiv diskutiert. Eine soeben erschienene Studie versucht nun, den Einfluss der Erderwärmung auf das Extremereignis genauer zu quantifizieren: Die Wahrscheinlichkeit dafür habe sich verdoppelt. Die Niederschläge waren um zumindest sieben Prozent intensiver, als sie es vor der Industrialisierung gewesen wären.

Traders are growing increasingly confident the European Central Bank will cut interest rates again next month as evidence mounts that the economy is weakening.

US consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in September by the most in three years on concerns about the labor market and the outlook for the broader economy.

European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said he expects gradual interest-rate cuts “in the near future” and in the first half of next year.

Buyers and sellers in US commercial real estate are increasingly convinced that the beleaguered market is reaching a bottom.

Tuesday’s hastily arranged briefing delivered a sweeping policy package. Economists say reversing the slump will require much more.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said she and her counterpart at the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell exchange views, but don’t coordinate.

Germany’s business outlook worsened again – reinforcing fears that Europe’s biggest economy is in a recession with no quick rebound imminent.

Fast ein Jahr nach Beginn des Gaza-Krieges und dem Beitritt der Hisbollah zur Anti-Israel-Allianz versucht Israel, die Schiitenmiliz im Libanon mit einer Welle an Angriffen in die Knie zu zwingen. Das israelische Militär griff nach eigenen Angaben am Montag rund 1.600 Ziele an und setzte die Attacken in der Nacht auf Dienstag fort. Laut libanesischen Angaben starben schon fast 500 Menschen.

China’s central bank unleashed an unprecedented blitz of policy support for the economy, as authorities made their boldest swing so far to hit this year’s annual growth target of about 5%, after a flurry of Wall Street banks downgraded their forecasts.