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Wall Street’s biggest players have had a rough start to the year. All the biggest US banks saw negative profits in the first three months of 2022, ending a pandemic-era boom.Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo all announced large year-over-year profit declines in their first-quarter earnings reports Thursday, …

China surpassed the United States to become the European Union’s (EU) largest trading partner in 2020-21 thanks to strong demand during the pandemic. Despite EU frustrations with Beijing over its stance on the Ukraine war, trade ties will be hard to break, regardless of attempts by EU policymakers to diversify …

The size of China’s economy was $17.7 trillion in 2021, according to official figures, so 5.5 percent growth would mean about $1 trillion more in 2022. Using growth in 2019 as a basis for comparison, business investment in China would need to contribute about 1.5 percentage points toward the 5.5 …

Since the outburst of the war in East Europe, markets have massively increased their expectations for key US interest rates. This can be seen, among other things, in the rise in the yield on the 2-year US Treasury bond by around 0.9%% in just a few weeks.The basis for this …

Japan’s Industry Ministry said on Friday it will release six million barrels of oil from privately owned reserves, as part of its contribution to the second round of coordinated withdrawals from reserves led by the International Energy Agency to cool crude prices. Japan will release the amount of oil, which …

The Japanese Nikkei index declined Friday, April 15th, after being affected by the decline in the blue-chip technology shares that tracked the weak performance on Wall Street, but losses were limited after investors repurchased shares before a long holiday. The Nikkei index fell 0.29% to close at 27,093.19 points, but …

The US dollar holds firmly up, giving up some of its recent gains ahead of the close as speculative interest booked some profits ahead of the Good Friday holiday.Economic Data The US Commerce Department on Thursday said that retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in March from a month …

Major US equity indices showed mixed performance on Thursday, with tech stocks underperforming as US yields soured. Investors received another update on the recovery in the jobs market. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits ticked up last week, according to the Labour Department, but remained at a historically low …

A regulatory filing on Thursday said billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion. Musk’s bid of $54.20 per share represents a 38 percent premium to Twitter’s closing price on April 1, which was the last trading day before the Tesla CEO announced his investment in more …

Japan’s Nikkei rose for a second session on Thursday, boosted by technology and travel stocks, tracking gains made by Wall Street Thursday night. The Nikkei ended the session up 1.22 percent to 27,172 points, to close above the 27,000 points level for the first time since the sixth of April. …