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Bureaucracy Is the Biggest Drag on German Competitiveness, Ifo Finds
Half of German firms name regulation as their top competitive problem—far ahead of energy and labour costs—with larger e...
Treasury's 1.2% Productivity Bet Under Fire as Economists Warn of a $20,000 Income Gap
Treasurer Jim Chalmers' Intergenerational Report relies on productivity jumping from 0.3% to 1.2%, but a lower 0.8% path...
The 'Gen Z Stare' Is a Signal From a Squeezed Service Workforce
A former McDonald's worker and labor research suggest flat wages, lean staffing and automation have made emotional labor...
Canton Fair's 140th Edition to Host 32,000 Exhibitors, Spotlighting AI and Green Exports
The 140th Canton Fair in Guangzhou runs Oct 15–Nov 4 with record AI and green product shares, 32,000-plus exhibitors and...
Federal Reserve Raises Key Rate to 3.75%-4% as Oil-Driven Inflation Persists
The central bank's first hike in three years moves the target range to 3.75%-4.0%. Chair Kevin Warsh says inflation is s...
Fed Raises Rates by a Quarter Point and Signals More Tightening as Underlying Inflation Stalls
The Federal Reserve lifted its benchmark rate by 25 basis points and pencilled in another hike this year, with officials...
Are Markets Pricing Too Many Fed Rate Hikes?
Rising US producer prices, driven by energy, have cemented bets on a 25bp Fed hike this week. But a Middle East de-escal...
South Korea Opens Direct Overseas Won Settlement in Currency Globalization Push
Foreign financial institutions can now settle won payments abroad through a new RFI-K licence, removing a longstanding h...
Hong Kong’s First Five-Year Plan Targets 196,000 Homes, 650,000 Jobs and Deeper Mainland Financial Ties
The plan pairs a large public housing push and Northern Metropolis job target with gold clearing, CBDC settlement and li...
Brazil’s Tax-Exempt Bond Volume ‘Completely Absurd,’ BTG’s Esteves Says
BTG Pactual chairman André Esteves says Brazil’s fiscal adjustment is politically easy, calls the volume of tax-exempt s...
India Gains Wider EU Steel Quota Under FTA, but Carbon Levy Stays
The India-EU FTA raises India's preferential steel quota to 1.64 million tonnes, covering 68.4% of 2025 exports, but a s...
Toronto's Global Capital Push: Carney Courts Investors With $500B Target
As the first Canada Investment Summit overlaps with TIFF and a Milken Toronto debut, Prime Minister Carney is pitching f...
ECB's Schnabel Speech Feed Contains Only a Risk Disclaimer
A Hebrew-language financial page listed an ECB board member named Schnabel but offered only a generic trading-risk discl...
Spain's Ghost Job Problem: How Many Online Listings Are Real Vacancies?
From Eurostat to InfoJobs, the data show a gap between job ads and real hiring. In Spain, where vacancies are scarce and...
US CPI Day: Why August Inflation Could Reprice Fed Bets, the Dollar and Gold
The August CPI print is expected at 0.4% m/m headline and 0.2% core. The surprise against those forecasts—not the level—...
France Cuts 2026 Growth Forecast to 0.5% as Household Demand Falters
The French government reduced its 2026 GDP outlook from 0.7% to 0.5% while INSEE sees just 0.4%, with weak consumption, ...
Egypt Weighs Raising Tax Exemption to EGP 100,000 in Third Relief Package
Senate economic committee secretary proposes higher income and VAT thresholds, sukuk and charity incentives as Egypt sta...
Kazakh PM: Work Exists for Those Who Want It Amid 845,000 Vacancies
Official data point to a paradox: hundreds of thousands of unfilled vacancies and about 300,000 foreign workers a year, ...
France’s Strong First-Half Tax Take Gives Government a Fiscal Breather
Bercy collected €275bn in H1 2026 tax revenue, up 3.7% from a year earlier and well above 1.9% nominal GDP growth. The s...
China's August Exports Jump 25% as Trade Surplus Widens, Raising US and EU Tensions
Exports rose 25% and imports 28.2% in August, pushing the year-to-date surplus to $805.5bn amid tariff truce talks with ...
Japan Current Account n.s.a.: Why the Release Matters, Even Without a Fresh Figure
A Hindi-language market page for Japan's current account n.s.a. contains only standard risk disclosures, not the actual ...
Senegal’s $2.2bn IMF Deal: Debt Restructuring and Political Risks Still Ahead
Dakar has secured a staff-level $2.2bn IMF programme, but final approval hinges on transparency reforms, creditor assura...
Strong US August payrolls lift rate-hike odds to 58%; Dow falls
US employers added 162,000 jobs in August, far above the 53,000 forecast. Traders now see a 58% chance of a September Fe...
From $6,000 to $32,000: Guyana's Oil Boom Meets the Resource-Curse Test
Guyana's GDP per capita has jumped from about $6,000 to more than $32,000 since offshore oil production began in 2019. T...
China New Foreign-Funded Firms Rise 7% in H1, Led by Hainan
China registered 35,000 new foreign-invested enterprises in the first half of 2026, with Hainan, healthcare and high-tec...
Australia Company Gross Operating Profits QoQ: A Live Page With No Verified Number
Investing.com's page for Australia's company gross operating profits carried only risk disclaimers and no verifiable QoQ...
Slovakia Eyes 1% State Spending Cut and Budget-Rule Workarounds for 2027
Prime Minister Fico says a flat one-percent cut across public administration could replace lost transaction-tax revenue,...
Japan’s Record ¥15.4 Trillion Yen Defence Fails to Break the Currency’s Slide
Tokyo spent a record ¥15.4 trillion defending the yen in July–August, including its first US-coordinated intervention in...
Italian Business and Consumer Confidence Improve in August, But Growth Still Subdued
ISTAT data shows consumer sentiment up for a second month and business sentiment up for a third, but both missed or bare...
Australian Inflation Beat Pushes Banks to Bring Forward RBA Rate Hike Calls
Headline CPI fell to 3.5% but sticky trimmed mean inflation and a faster-than-expected July print have ANZ tipping a Nov...