Austerity and the prospect of significant trade tariffs are prompting anxiety about household finances and job prospects ...

The full macroeconomic assessment and outlook will be published with the March Inflation Report on 27 March. In general, ...

Last year, mortgage interest rates consistently declined, dropping from 4.1% in December 2023 to 3.6% by the end of 2024, ...

Norway's surprise spike in core and headline inflation in February suggests Norges Bank may keep rates on hold despite previously signalling that a cut was likely at the 27 March meeting. Market ...

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence surveys published today are the biggest release for the week in FX. A great deal of the market’s pessimism on US macro has stemmed from soft consumer figures, ...

The German economy is in the middle of two seismic activities: the just-agreed fiscal stimulus package and looming US tariffs. For the time being, the positives seem to outweigh the negatives as ...

If Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat of more tariffs against the EU next week, we calculate that could knock 0.33% off ...

Oil got an additional boost after the US announced secondary tariffs on buyers of Venezuelan oil Oil prices rose yesterday ...

The March PMI shows cautious further improvement, up to 50.4 from 50.2 in February. Most notably, the manufacturing output ...

Retail sales in Poland fell in February following strong growth in January, primarily due to a sharp slowdown in car sales.

South Korean consumer sentiment weakened anew in March as political divisions intensified, falling to 93.4 from 95.2 in February. This follows two months in which confidence improved after a sharp ...

Crude oil saw its largest weekly increase since early January with ICE Brent settling more than 2.2% higher. Tighter ...