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The European Central Bank has room to lower borrowing costs further as inflation approaches its target but must pay close attention to upside risks, according to Governing Council member Christodoulos Patsalides.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both praised expanding relations with Russia at bilateral meetings with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

The European Central Bank must be agile with further interest-rate cuts to avoid the risk of acting too slowly, according to Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the euro could drop as much as 10% versus the dollar if Donald Trump and the Republicans win next month’s US elections and enact high global tariffs and generous domestic tax cuts.

An increasingly dire euro-area economy might exacerbate slowing consumer-price growth, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn.

The direction of European Central Bank borrowing costs is clear but the pace at which they’ll be lowered is still to be decided, according to President Christine Lagarde, who didn’t rule out bigger moves.

The number of layoffs at troubled Swedish battery maker Northvolt AB is now at around 1,200 following an announcement from the IF Metall union that more than 800 of its members will be let go from the firm’s key manufacturing site.

For the past several months, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has hammered home the idea that interest-rate decisions will be made meeting by meeting based on incoming data.

Central bankers are concerned that Donald Trump will unleash a new trade war if he returns to the White House, making their job much harder.

The International Monetary Fund lowered its global growth forecast for next year and warned of accelerating risks from wars to trade protectionism, even as it credited central banks for taming inflation without sending nations into recession.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Jeffrey Schmid said he favors a slower pace of interest-rate reductions given uncertainty about how low the US central bank should ultimately cut rates.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari repeated that he favors reducing interest rates at a slower pace in the coming quarters.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said she expected the US central bank would continue cutting interest rates to guard against further weakening in the labor market.

Trotz eines leichten Rückgangs von rund einem Prozent bei den Übernachtungen haben sich Tirols Touristiker am Montag bei der Bilanz zur bisherigen Sommersaison zufrieden gezeigt. Es seien 20,3 Mio. Nächtigungen seien verzeichnet worden. Auch für den Winter gab man sich optimistisch.

The European Central Bank remains flexible going into its final meeting of 2024, according to Governing Council member Peter Kazimir, who said disinflation is on a “solid footing” and more cuts in borrowing costs are possible.

Even before global finance chiefs fly into Washington over the next few days, they’ve been urged in advance by the International Monetary Fund to tighten their belts.

Chinese banks cut their benchmark lending rates after easing by the central bank at the end of September, part of a series of measures aimed at reviving economic growth and halting a housing market slump.

The global economy is heading toward year end with unexpected tailwinds as slowing inflation clears a path for an unlikely soft landing. But while the economics side of the equation is looking up, political hurdles lie ahead.

Gold reached a record on Monday, with safe haven demand continuing to support prices as traders monitored escalating tensions in the Middle East and the increasingly tight US election race.

After falling behind on tech trends, German carmakers are scrambling to recover in their biggest and most lucrative market.

Traders are adding to bets that the European Central Bank will need a bumper interest-rate cut in December after policymakers flagged risks to growth as they lowered borrowing costs on Thursday.

The risk of the euro sliding to parity with the dollar is mounting in financial markets after this week’s interest-rate cut and a stark reminder that a Donald Trump presidency could spark a global trade war.

Die Konjunktur ist schwach, das Budgetdefizit steigt, auf die nächste Bundesregierung kommt die eher undankbare Aufgabe zu, den Staatshaushalt zu sanieren. Diese Aufgabe sei sehr dringend, so der Leiter des Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituts (WIFO), Gabriel Felbermayr, am Sonntag in der ORF-„Pressestunde“. Es brauche eine klare Reformagenda, „Tabus“ dürfe es keine geben.

China’s central bank moved to support markets just as data showed the economy expanding the least in six quarters, signaling the government’s intent to continue a stimulus push to draw a line under the slowdown.