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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian…
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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul's Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday's circuit-breaker plunge…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
The International Monetary Fund's credit outstanding plus undrawn commitments stands at 240 billion dollars, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the plenary of…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 6 min read
People's Bank of China (PBoC) Governor Pan Gongsheng told G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Bangkok on 15 October that…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min read
France recorded 119,307 business births in September on seasonally and working-day adjusted figures, the highest monthly total since INSEE began measuring them…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Employment across the OECD area reached a record 70.4 percent of people aged 15 to 64 in the second quarter of 2026,…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
The 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) have released approximately 330 million barrels of emergency oil stocks under the…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 7 min read
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors rotated out of the AI…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session's settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the…
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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 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday's hot US inflation print reached the region's chipmakers: Seoul's Kospi dived 7.57…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
The UK economy grew 0.1 percent in August, the Office for National Statistics said on 15 October, as production rose 0.8 percent,…
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Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian supplies, while all five metals rose, platinum and silver up near 1.6 percent and gold 0.72 percent higher at 4,200.10 dollars an ounce as the dollar headed for a weekly fall. The crude…
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul’s Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday’s circuit-breaker plunge and Tokyo’s Nikkei up 1.39 percent after six straight declines, while Shenzhen’s component index slipped 0.12 percent for a fifth session, the only decline on the board. India’s Nifty 50 added 0.65 percent…
The International Monetary Fund’s credit outstanding plus undrawn commitments stands at 240 billion dollars, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the plenary of the 2026 Annual Meetings in Bangkok on 16 October, and its concessional lending, at 36 billion dollars, is roughly four times its historical average. She said unused lending capacity is roughly three times…
People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Governor Pan Gongsheng told G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Bangkok on 15 October that intensifying geopolitical conflict remains the biggest uncertainty for the world economy, and that large swings in some countries’ government bond markets and the risk of a correction in AI-related asset valuations have added…
France recorded 119,307 business births in September on seasonally and working-day adjusted figures, the highest monthly total since INSEE began measuring them in January 2000, the national statistics institute said on 16 October. In raw terms, births from July to September rose by 45,471, or 16.0 percent, from the same three months of 2025. The…
Employment across the OECD area reached a record 70.4 percent of people aged 15 to 64 in the second quarter of 2026, and the labour force participation rate set its own record at 74.2 percent, according to figures released on 15 October. The member-wide unemployment rate was 5.0 percent in August, up from 4.9 percent…
The 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) have released approximately 330 million barrels of emergency oil stocks under the collective action agreed in March, and the total will now exceed the 400 million barrels originally pledged, the agency’s Governing Board said on 15 October. The Board agreed to accelerate the remaining volumes,…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors rotated out of the AI trade and into the rest of the board, on CNBC’s account of the session, with the Russell 2000 leading at 1.38 percent; the Nasdaq 100 fell 0.05 percent for a fourth straight decline…
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session’s settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the settlements and the crude benchmarks parted ways into the close: December gold settled 62.20 dollars, or 1.51 percent, higher at 4,170.10 an ounce as the dollar and Treasury yields slipped, while WTI settled…
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…