Macroeconomic data, trends, and policy developments.
Coverage of key economic indicators, central bank policy decisions, inflation trends, labor data, and growth signals. This category focuses on the macroeconomic forces that shape markets, interest rates, and long-term capital allocation.
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Ken Griffin is reportedly re-evaluating a planned $6 billion redevelopment in Midtown Manhattan after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani filmed a video outside Griffin’s Central Park South penthouse promoting a pied-à-terre tax. An internal email from Griffin's firm flagged the mayor's public remarks as a potential threat to moving forward with the…
Uruguay's finance minister has assured investors that private pension fund managers will continue to play a central role in the country's retirement system. The confirmation, delivered on local radio, stressed that individual savings accounts remain protected and will be administered by the private sector as planned reforms move forward.
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.5, making the model available to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise customers via ChatGPT and Codex. The update delivers higher scores across several coding, research and professional benchmarks, preserves per-token latency of the previous iteration while using fewer tokens for comparable tasks, and introduces a 1-…
New figures from Italy’s multi-year budget plan and updated Greek estimates indicate that Greece will likely relinquish its position as the euro zone’s most indebted country this year, as Greece’s debt-to-GDP ratio is forecast to fall while Italy’s rises in 2026. The change reflects recent trajectories in public debt ratios and planned fiscal actio…
The White House will formally unveil a drug pricing agreement with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals at a Thursday afternoon event, following a post by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on X. Regeneron is the last of 17 large pharmaceutical firms contacted by President Donald Trump in July to sign the pricing accords. The company confirmed the a…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a U.S. House committee that just a single applicant has been approved under the administration's $1 million 'Gold Card' visa program, while hundreds of additional applications remain under review. The program, which began accepting applications in December, requires a $1 million residency fee plus a $15,000 pr…
The average U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate slipped to 6.23% this week from 6.30% last week, according to Freddie Mac. Markets remain sensitive to a tenuous ceasefire between Washington and Iran and related military measures that have kept Treasury yields in a narrow range and pushed global oil prices higher.
Justice Department officials held discussions with local broadcast station operators at a Las Vegas industry conference earlier this week as part of an early-stage antitrust inquiry into the sports media landscape. The meetings explored the financial and audience implications of moving more games to streaming services, with regulators also coordina…
A larger-than-expected economic slowdown in the first two months of the year has led certain analysts to revise their forecasts for the central bank's April 24 meeting, increasing the likelihood of a quicker reduction in the key interest rate. New industrial output figures and mixed corporate results are intensifying debate over the timing and scal…
The International Monetary Fund will dispatch a team to Mozambique in June to advance negotiations on a new lending programme, an IMF spokesperson said. The visit follows productive discussions during the IMF Spring Meetings on the fallout from the Middle East conflict and how the Fund can support Mozambique as it faces severe financial stress, a c…
The European Union formally approved a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine and a new sanctions package targeting Russia, following the removal of a veto by Hungary. The funding, intended to cover roughly two-thirds of Ukraine's financing needs over the next two years, will largely support military spending while allocating around 17 billion euros per y…
A flash reading from S&P Global showed U.S. private-sector activity strengthened in April, with manufacturing at the forefront of the recovery. At the same time, disruptions tied to the conflict with Iran pushed supplier delivery times out and lifted both input and output prices to levels not seen in nearly four years.
The White House has accused foreign entities, chiefly based in China, of conducting industrial-scale campaigns to distill and exfiltrate U.S. frontier artificial intelligence systems. A memo from Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, says these operations deploy tens of thousands of proxy accounts an…
U.S. private-sector activity improved in April with a rebound led by manufacturing, according to S&P Global's flash PMI readings. At the same time, supplier delivery times deteriorated and measures of prices both paid and charged jumped to multi-month highs, a development S&P Global links to shipping disruptions from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran a…
A new analysis from the Institute for Macroeconomics and Economic Research (IMK) finds a marked increase in the probability that Germany will enter a recession in the second quarter, citing elevated energy prices following the Iran war, deteriorating financial market indicators and worsening business sentiment. The IMK monthly business cycle indica…
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun has filed a federal lawsuit in California against World Liberty Financial, the digital currency company co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his sons, alleging the firm unlawfully froze and threatened to delete his holdings of WLFI tokens. The complaint claims World Liberty installed hidden controls that prev…
Major purchasing managers' surveys and corporate statements this week indicate the economic fallout from the Iran war is broadening beyond energy markets. Euro zone activity slipped into contraction in April, input costs surged, and services sectors weakened even as some regions and industries temporarily accelerated output to pre-empt supply disru…
A poll of 85 economists conducted between April 17 and Wednesday finds near-unanimous expectation that the European Central Bank will leave its deposit rate at 2% on April 30, with just over half forecasting a 25 basis-point increase in June as policymakers weigh the inflationary effects of higher energy costs tied to the Middle East conflict.
A poll of 85 economists conducted April 17-23 finds most expect the European Central Bank to keep its deposit rate steady at the April 30 meeting but that a slim majority anticipate a 25 basis-point increase in June to counter war-driven energy price pressures. Economists disagree on further tightening, reflecting uncertainty over whether higher fu…
American Express reported first-quarter results that exceeded analyst forecasts as higher-income customers continued to spend on travel and discretionary items. Billed business rose 9% to $428 billion on a foreign exchange-adjusted basis, revenue climbed 10% to $18.9 billion, and adjusted earnings per share reached $4.28, ahead of consensus. The co…
Sainsbury’s chief executive Simon Roberts called on the UK government to step in to protect the entire food supply chain from rising energy costs connected to recent U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, arguing support is needed to prevent upward pressure on grocery prices. He made the appeal after Sainsbury’s published its full-year results, pointing to …
A Confederation of British Industry survey published on Thursday shows UK manufacturers at their most pessimistic since the early pandemic. Measures of business optimism and order books fell sharply while the gauge of expected prices recorded its largest month-on-month rise since records began in 1975. Investment plans for buildings, plant and mach…
Citi said it cannot dismiss the chance that the Bank of Korea will deliver a preemptive rate increase at its May 28 monetary policy meeting if the central bank raises its 2026 growth and inflation projections. The bank now models a higher median forward six-month conditional policy rate and expects upward revisions to both GDP and CPI forecasts, ci…
Business sentiment among British manufacturers weakened to its weakest level since April 2020, the Confederation of British Industry reported. Investment intentions for buildings, plant and machinery and training hit their lowest point since that month, while measures of optimism, order books and expected prices all deteriorated sharply in April.
U.S. equity markets have recovered sharply from March lows as diplomatic progress over the Iran conflict, resilient first-quarter earnings and expectations for AI-related spending prompt investors to re-enter positions. Market participants cite a fear of missing out as fresh flows push major indices to recent highs, with technology, industrials, fi…
