Gold steady after record high as geopolitical and economic worries persist
Gold remains stable after hitting a record high, fueled by economic concerns and geopolitical tensions. Investors await Fed updates.
Gold remains stable after hitting a record high, fueled by economic concerns and geopolitical tensions. Investors await Fed updates.
BMW expects a €1 billion loss for 2025 due to the US-EU tariff dispute, including a 25% duty on certain vehicles and tariffs on its China-made electric cars. The company hopes not all tariffs will remain for the full year.
The European Commission has raised €9 billion of EU-Bonds in its 3rd syndicated transaction for 2025.
Inditex, parent company of Zara, reported a 4% sales growth in Q1 2025, down from 11% last year, amid concerns about weakening consumer demand. Despite this, the company plans a 9% dividend increase and €1.8 billion investment in growth, with expansion into new markets.
China's new energy vehicle (NEV) market saw impressive growth in February, with sales hitting 686,000 units. This increase highlights the country's strong push toward electrification, driven by government incentives, improved infrastructure, and growing consumer demand.
Malaysia’s palm oil stocks fell to 1.51 million tons in February, the lowest in nearly two years, due to lower production and exports. Crude palm oil output dropped 4.16%, while exports fell 16.27%. The decline may impact global prices, with supply and demand shaping future trends.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is going private after Sycamore Partners sealed a $10 billion deal, ending nearly a century on public markets. Struggling with competition and changing consumer habits, Walgreens aims to reinvent itself away from the pressures of being publicly traded.
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile, under the Treasury Department.
The U.S. labor market is projected to remain stable in February, with job growth likely picking up and the unemployment rate holding at around 4.0%, despite growing concerns over trade policy uncertainty and deep federal spending cuts, according to economists.
Ford Motor Company will recall 35,328 vehicles due to a potential fire hazard linked to faulty LED lights in the exterior mirrors, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced on Tuesday.
The U.S. dollar has dropped to a three-month low amid growing concerns over slowing economic growth and the impact of new tariffs.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media that five digital assets will be included in a new U.S. strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies, a move that spurred a significant surge in market values.
The Vietnamese government has approved funding of 12.8 trillion VND ($500 million) to build a small-scale semiconductor chip manufacturing plant, with the goal of developing a domestic chip industry and ensuring supply chain resilience.
China's securities regulator has moved to clamp down on U.S. stock listings by small homegrown companies amid concerns that many of these firms have been used as vehicles for price-rigging, inflicting significant losses on U.S. investors, according to the Financial Times.
Egg prices in the United States are predicted to increase by 41.1% in 2025, according to a report released by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins met with poultry farmers and industry leaders focused on avian flu response efforts.
Indonesia is set to become the Muslim Fashion center, targeting five Middle Eastern countries—Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt—as potential markets for exporting apparel and footwear.
Bitcoin and ether, the two largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, plunged to multi-month lows on Tuesday amid a broad market sell-off and heightened uncertainty following last week's hack that siphoned $1.5 billion in ether from the crypto exchange Bybit.
Washington, D.C., February 24, 2025 – Research released by the San Francisco Fed on Monday reveals that investors and economists expect the U.S. central bank to respond “strongly and systematically” to shifts in inflation and labor market conditions.
Russia has resumed wheat exports to Kazakhstan after lifting a ban that was in place until December 31, 2024.
The European Union will seek more gas from countries including the U.S. to replace Russian supplies, and expand renewable energy faster to cut its overall reliance on the fuel, the EU's energy commissioner has said.
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