In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about Germany’s climate conservatives giving ‘green’ a patriotic rebrand, a Czech church in spa town being linked to a Kremlin kompromat campaign, and so much ...

Gold price regains positive traction as fading US-China trade optimism revives safe-haven demand. The US economic worries and ...

The IMF released the World Economic Outlook April 2025 last Tuesday. I downloaded the database Excel files, I checked the numbers on GDP size both in current values and purchasing power parity values ...

If the past couple of years have taught us anything, it’s that households just aren’t as sensitive to higher rates as they ...

Aggregate bond ETF AGG weakens with the USD as foreign selling surges and bond-equity correlations shift dramatically. Check out why AGG is a sell.

Foreign Direct Investment: Stock of FDI: $57.4 billion, inflows = 2.8% of GDP (Figs 2024, IMD World Competitiveness ... 174 MW Karadzhalovo solar park in Plovdiv five years ago; and the Czech Republic ...

Poland is set to overtake Japan in living standards by 2026, marking a stunning shift in global economic rankings.

- Consumer discretionary: Adidas [ADS.DE] +2.0% (prelim results - post close), Kering [KER.FR] -6.5% (earnings), Nestle [NESN.CH] -0.5% (results), EssilorLuxottica [EL.FR] -3.5% (earnings) - Consumer ...

Last June, the EU’s European Commission triggered its excessive deficit procedure against Brussels for breaching the threshold of 3 percent of GDP—and total public debt at or above 60 percent ...

In Romania, the final GDP data for 4Q25 was released, showing the economy growing by 0.8% quarter-on-quarter and 0.7% year-on-year. Of more interest is likely to be the final inflation estimate in the ...

The OECD does include obligations to EU institutions and also all other loan guarantees given by the government of the Czech Republic to other institutions within the country. Different rule sets ...

The OECD does include obligations to EU institutions and also all other loan guarantees given by the government of the Czech Republic to other institutions within the country. Different rule sets ...