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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Five of Europe's nine indices rose on Thursday as health care led the sectors for a second day and Zurich's SMI ran…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of Europe's nine indices rose on Wednesday, led by Zurich's SMI at 1.45 percent in a fourth straight gain, and Milan's…
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Markets · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read
Seven of the nine European indices closed lower on Tuesday as the morning's gains faded, with London giving back a three-week high…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
All nine European indices closed higher on Monday, led by Madrid, where the IBEX 35 rose 1.33 percent, in a second straight…
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EU · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
China's Ministry of Commerce said on 12 October that its hybrid car understanding with the EU is an "upward arrangement", in our…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 6 min read
The European Commission selected 46 new strategic projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act on 9 October 2026, spread across 16 member…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 8 min read
China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič ended the second meeting of the…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
German local courts registered 2,373 applications for company insolvency in July 2026, 8.0 percent more than in July 2025, the Federal Statistical…
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Macro · Oct 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Every member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council supported the quarter-point increase that took the deposit facility rate to 2.50 percent…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 6 min read
All nine European indices we track closed higher on Friday as oil eased from Thursday's spike and the week's bond selloff paused.…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Eight of the nine European indices we track closed lower on Thursday as a fresh bond selloff and oil prices above 100…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of the nine European indices we track closed lower on Wednesday, led by Milan's 2.51 percent drop, as a global bond…
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Five of Europe’s nine indices rose on Thursday as health care led the sectors for a second day and Zurich’s SMI ran to a fifth straight gain at 1.55 percent, while the euro area’s large caps slipped, the Euro STOXX 50 down 0.39 percent and Milan’s 0.72 percent fall the day’s deepest. US producer prices…
Eight of Europe’s nine indices rose on Wednesday, led by Zurich’s SMI at 1.45 percent in a fourth straight gain, and Milan’s FTSE MIB fell 0.61 percent as the only decline, ending a three-session winning run. A hotter-than-expected US inflation report in mid-afternoon lifted the dollar and left Wall Street lower as Europe closed. Brent…
Seven of the nine European indices closed lower on Tuesday as the morning’s gains faded, with London giving back a three-week high to end 0.06 percent down. Zurich and Milan alone finished higher, each in a third straight gain. Brent traded 0.66 percent below Monday’s settlement at 105.95 dollars a barrel by the 16:09 GMT…
All nine European indices closed higher on Monday, led by Madrid, where the IBEX 35 rose 1.33 percent, in a second straight session of gains across the panel. London’s FTSE 100 added 0.99 percent to finish at its high of the day, Frankfurt’s DAX gained 0.76 percent on the exchange’s closing price, and Milan’s FTSE…
China’s Ministry of Commerce said on 12 October that its hybrid car understanding with the EU is an “upward arrangement”, in our translation of the Chinese text, built on 2025 volumes. Citing Eurostat, the ministry put 2025 at 302,000 Chinese hybrids shipped to the EU, up from 107,000 in 2024. In Beijing 3 days earlier,…
The European Commission selected 46 new strategic projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act on 9 October 2026, spread across 16 member states and chosen from 102 applications, which takes the number of projects designated under the law to 106. The new list leans hard toward recycling: 19 of the 46 are pure recycling projects…
China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič ended the second meeting of the EU-China Trade and Investment Consultations in Beijing on 9 October with a joint statement and an agreed list of deliverables, and Šefčovič put the tariff relief on offer to EU exporters at almost…
German local courts registered 2,373 applications for company insolvency in July 2026, 8.0 percent more than in July 2025, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on 9 October. Consumer insolvencies moved the other way, falling 5.9 percent from a year earlier to 7,111. Over the first 7 months of the year, company cases rose 6.9…
Every member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council supported the quarter-point increase that took the deposit facility rate to 2.50 percent in September, with the main refinancing rate at 2.65 percent and the marginal lending rate at 2.90 percent from 16 September, according to the account of the 9 and 10 September meeting in…
All nine European indices we track closed higher on Friday as oil eased from Thursday’s spike and the week’s bond selloff paused. Frankfurt’s DAX led, up 1.13 percent at 25,087.27 on Deutsche Boerse’s closing value, and Madrid’s IBEX 35 logged the shallowest gain at 0.55 percent. The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 1.03 percent to 631.95…