European countries are bracing for a flood of cheap Chinese goods after the U.S. smacked imports of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), metals, semiconductors, and solar panels with new tariffs last week. “The U.S. has sent a very clear message that it wants minimal Chinese participation in its green transition,” geopolitics analyst Yanmei Xie at Gavekal Research,......
Inflation across the 20 countries that share the euro currency will fall to 2.5 percent, averaged throughout the year, the European Commission (EC) has projected.
In recent times, the economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community.
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
The cost of insuring a passenger car or pickup truck in the U.S. leaped up 22 percent in the 12 months ending 30 April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
In 2023, U.S. developers built 93,000 single-family homes as rental units, leaping 39 percent above the number in 2022 and setting a record, according to John Burns Research and Consulting.
The International Criminal Court announced Monday that it will seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the country’s defense minister—drawing swift blowback from U.S. President Joe Biden, their genocide co-signer.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was improving inside a hospital on Monday after an assassination attempt last week in the town of Handlova, which Russia suggested was tied to his close relationship with Moscow.
On 15 May, the price of copper for July delivery in New York shot past $5 a pound, or more than $10,000 a ton, gaining 11 percent over just the previous week to set a record on U.S. markets.
The prices U.S. hospitals charge for care ballooned at an annual rate of 7.7 percent in April, the sharpest increase since October 2010, the Labor Department reported.