In this year’s first quarter, the economy of the 20-country Eurozone grew 0.1 percent from 2025’s final three months. It posted an annualized GDP increase of 0.6 percent.
Tag: Global Economy
GERMAN INVESTORS’ MOOD IS GLOOMIEST IN THREE YEARS
German investors’ confidence in current economic conditions is its lowest since December 2022, according to the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment, a monthly survey by the country’s ZEW economic research organization.
EU COUNTRIES RAISE TAXES ON WAGES TO DECADE HIGHS
Cash-strapped European governments have raised taxes on wages to their highest rates in almost 10 years to collect quick money to fund business and household aid programs, as soaring energy bills squeeze consumer, business, and national budgets.
U.K. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE TANKS IN APRIL
Confidence in the U.K.’s economic prospects among British households fell four points last month to -25 in a survey by global research firm GfK.
BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC OUTPUT JUMPS TO GET AHEAD OF WAR’S IMPACT
After a brief slump at the onset of the Iran War, the U.K.’s private sector has rebounded, according to S&P Global’s purchasing managers index (PMI) for April.
COMPANIES SURGE PRODUCTION TO BEAT SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS
Factory output in Britain, France, India, and Japan rose in March, according to Standard & Poor’s purchasing managers' indexes, even as the Iran War raged.
GLOBAL CURRENCIES RISE IN VALUE AS U.S. DOLLAR SLIDES
The U.S. dollar’s value rose early in the Iran War as investors sought safety and saw the U.S. as somewhat insulated from the war’s global economic damage.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies, known informally as SpaceX, has paid $60 billion for the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor at a future time.
SPOTLIGHT: CLEAN ENERGY IS BACK IN FOCUS
In 2025, renewable energy systems generated more electricity than coal-fired generating stations, research organization Ember reported.
SPOTLIGHT: PRIVATE CREDIT’S MISERY
With the markets focused on the geopolitical and socioeconomic effects of the Iran War, it has been forgotten that the equity markets were in decline before the Iran War was launched by the U.S. and Israel on 28 February.









