Consumer confidence in the United States has continued its sharp 2025 decline as Americans’ views about their financial futures slumped to a 12-year low, driven by rising anxiety over tariffs and inflation....
LONDON — Rachel Reeves bangs the “growth, growth, growth” drum again Wednesday. But her Labour colleagues are starting to wonder what happens if the music dies. Reeves, Britain’s top finance...
A measure of consumers’ short-term expectations has fallen to its lowest level in 12 years, ticking a figure that has historically signaled recessions ahead. The measure of the short-term outlook...
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. When it comes to the spring statement from Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, one...
China has released five staff of the due diligence firm Mintz Group after nearly two years in detention, the United States-based company has said. Chinese authorities detained the five local...
Manufacturing shrank again this month, after a brief reprieve in in January and February, according to the flash manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for March. The entire economy is probably...
To the untrained eye, Donald Trump’s tariff policy over the past two months has looked like an incoherent, inconsistent, self-destructive mess. But have you considered the possibility that it is,...
China’s economy and markets have been battered over the last few years due to an epic property crisis and post-pandemic scarring — but it may now be turning the corner....
In February of 2021, a fitness instructor named Khing Hnin Wai shot what might be history’s most viral aerobics lesson. Filming herself in front of a major thoroughfare in Myanmar’s...
Hard Data Trumps Soft Data and Media Narrative The financial press and sentiment surveys keep insisting that the U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of recession. But hard data...
