Confidence among Europe’s business owners and executives has sunk to its lowest since November 2022, according to the Hamburg Commercial Bank’s new purchasing managers index (PMI).
Tag: Global Economy
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Federal job cuts continue under Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which oversees banks and deposit accounts, will lay off 1,250 people.
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Federal job cuts continue under Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
Again, as we have greatly detailed we saw this coming! Back on 2 January of this year we had forecast that Playing The Wild Card would be a Top Trend for 2025... and here we are. And who dealt the Wild Card? It was another one of our Top Trends for 2025... The Trump Card.
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The U.S. added 228,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate rose from 4.1 percent to 4.2 percent, according to the Labor Department’s job report for March.
CANADA’S GROWTH OUTLOOK DARKENS
Canada’s economy will grow at an annualized rate of just 0.7 percent in this year’s second quarter, according to Bloomberg’s poll of 34 economists. In February, the same poll foresaw growth at 1.7 percent.
ECB SHOULD THINK ABOUT PAUSING RATE CUTS, BELGIAN CENTRAL BANKER SAYS
The European Central Bank (ECB) should consider not reducing its key interest rate again at its meeting this month, Pierre Wunsch, the governor of Belgium’s central bank and a member of the ECB’s rate-setting committee, said last week.









