US nonfarm payrolls rose by 64,000 in November, beating forecasts but revealing deeper cracks in the labor market that sent Bitcoin briefly slipping below the mid-$86,000 area. While the headline jobs number was better than the worst-case fears, the uptick in the unemployment rate to 4.6% triggered a conflicting wave of…
Global markets opened on Wednesday with investors digesting a mix of technology dealmaking, uneven economic signals, and sharp moves…
The oil market currently sits between two distinctive scenarios, involving the growing supply risk from Venezuela, and prospect of…
Japan’s export engine showed fresh resilience in November, with shipments to the US rising for the first time since…
The UK’s inflation rate cooled more sharply than expected in November, strengthening the case for the Bank of England…
The GBP/USD exchange rate dropped by 0.75% on Wednesday after the UK published encouraging consumer inflation data. Sterling dropped…
German business sentiment is set to end the year on a softer note, highlighting how difficult it remains for…
For most of the past two decades, China’s economy could solve slow growth by pulling one of three levers.…
Lithium prices in China experienced a sharp increase on Wednesday following a significant regulatory action by the natural resource…