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The Russia-Ukraine war entered its 19th month in the second half of September. Despite this, the violence shows no signs of letting up.

Before yesterday's ECB meeting, there was a bit of uncertainty about whether the ECB would hike or not, with markets pricing in a 65% implied probability of a 25-bps hike. A break below the May low of...

The ECB just announced its tenth consecutive policy rate hike since July last year, hiking all interest rates by 25bp. Higher inflation and inflation forecasts look like the main drivers of the hike.

Markets are torn. Will the ECB hike this week or not?

I'm not going to sugar coat this: Europe's economy looks atrocious right now. If you thought the Federal Reserve had a tough time dealing with inflation, you have no idea how difficult things are over...

The CPI for services spiked by 5.6% in July, compared to a year ago, up from 5.4% in June and 5.0% in May, another record in the data going back to 1997, according to Eurostat today. “Core” CPI (witho...

European equities have been attracting interest from U.S. investors who may be nervous about the future of domestic markets and looking to diversify by investing overseas. Two of the largest ETFs cove...

The European Central Bank looks set to hike rates by 25bp on Thursday. With the bleak economic outlook and disinflation gaining traction, however, the end to rate hikes is near.

Wall Street had an awesome first half of 2023 after the S&P 500's worst year in 2022 since 2008.

Industrial production growth in Europe has more or less stagnated since late 2020 as the speedy recovery that followed the first round of lockdowns came to a halt. At the same time, the sector is in a...