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  • US President Donald Trump speaks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen prior to their meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, on January 21, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Europe needs help. As France and Germany remain stuck in political paralysis, a power vacuum awaits President Trump

    By David McHugh, Lorne Cook, and others
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – OCTOBER 17: A protester holds a sign during a demonstration calling for an hostages deal on October 17, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reportedly killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on Thursday. Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz confirmed the news in a message to his global counterparts. Sinwar is widely thought to have organized the deadly attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023, and became leader of Hamas after the assassination of the group’s previous leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in July. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)Politics

    Israel’s massive war spending could force tough choices between social programs and the military

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank.Finance

    Inflation rears its ugly head in Europe, putting the European Central Bank in a fix—once again

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Higher interest rates from the European Central Bank have helped bring inflation down from 10.6% in October 2022 to 2.5% in June — but have also held back construction activity and quashed a years-long rally in house prices.Finance

    Germany remains the eurozone’s troubled economic child holding back Europe, while the U.S. dominates

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • BYD Co. Dolphin compact hatchback electric vehiclesRetail

    Europe officially slaps tariffs on Chinese EVs in the biggest EU-China trade war escalation yet

    By David McHugh, Ken Moritsugu, and others
  • Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), at a rates decision news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The ECB held interest rates steady for a fifth meeting, while sending its clearest signal yet that cooling inflation will soon allow it to commence cuts. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Interest rates are almost definitely about to head down—in Europe

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • pump jack and oil barrelsFinance

    OPEC+ extends oil production cuts through all of 2025 to help prop up weaker crude prices

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • 16 May 2024, Hesse, Frankfurt/Main: The headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt’s Ostend district rises imposingly into the sky. Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa (Photo by Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)Finance

    Inflation rose in Europe in May but its central bank is still set to cut interest rates before the Fed

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Guillaume Faury, chief executive officer of Airbus SE, during a full year earnings news conference in Toulouse, France, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Airbus said it plans to hand over about 800 aircraft this year, pushing output of its bestselling A320 family of single-aisle jets at a time when arch-rival Boeing Co. is stuck in crisis mode after a near-disastrous accident early last month. Photographer: Matthieu Rondel/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Why Airbus won’t expand its lead on Boeing even as its biggest rival stumbles

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Christine LagardeFinance

    European Central Bank declines to cut rates because ‘domestic price pressures are strong and are keeping services price inflation high’

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • 25 March 2024, Hamburg: Customers shopping in an ALDI discount supermarket. Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa (Photo by Markus Scholz/picture alliance via Getty Images)Finance

    Inflation that squeezed European shoppers fell more than expected in March to 2.4%, as grocery cost spikes eased

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Vladimir PutinFinance

    Putin’s inconvenient truth for the west: Despite 7% inflation, Russia’s economy is a ‘big and resilient animal

    By David McHugh, Vladimir Isachenkov, and others
  • Christine LagardeFinance

    Europe is losing hope of a spring rate cut even with inflation far off peak

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Vladimir PutinFinance

    European inflation has now fallen from its 10.6% peak after the Russian invasion of Ukraine to just 2.6%

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press
  • Robert HabeckFinance

    Germany just slashed its growth forecast, saying ‘the economy is in troubled waters’

    By David McHugh and The Associated Press