Analysis

Seesaw tariff announcements have unnerved Wall Street, as investors said flip-flopping moves by the Trump administration to roll back levies on trading partners were causing confusion rather than bringing relief.

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - As they watched Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy evicted from the White House last week after an unprecedented live televised quarrel with President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, some of America’s closest allies began to swiftly rea...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - A defence spending surge could boost Europe's sluggish economy as long as it provides a springboard for a broader industrial revival and if governments convince the sector that the funding is there for the long haul.

OTTAWA, March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. tariffs that took effect on Tuesday are threatening to derail Canada's fledgling economic recovery and will fuel a rise in consumer prices and unemployment, potentially triggering a recession.

As major US tech giants compete to expand their capital expenditures (CapEx) to enhance AI infrastructure construction, the launch of China's large model DeepSeek R1,  at the beginning of 2025,  overturned the entire capital market and tech industry’s perception. DeepSeek flipped the narrative...

ORLANDO, Florida, March 4 (Reuters) - The divergence between U.S. and European stocks this year was epitomized by the perfect symmetry in their opposing fortunes on Monday: Germany's DAX surged 2.64%, while America's Nasdaq slumped 2.64%.

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Is OPEC's iron grip on the oil markets a thing of the past? Events over the last 24 hours suggest power in the oil market has shifted to Washington from Riyadh - in part because of U.S. President Donald Trump and in part because of longer-term shifts.

MILAN, March 5 (Reuters) - Italy's campaign to put more of its huge public debt in the hands of small domestic savers will grow increasingly difficult, analysts say, but foreign investors lured by Rome's political stability and improving finances can plug any funding gap.

Next month marks three years since a China Eastern 600115.SS jet plunged into a hillside killing 132 people, with relatives still waiting to learn what caused China's deadliest air disaster in three decades.

Going into the year investors were betting that President Donald Trump's policies would spur U.S. stocks and the dollar to outperform their global peers. That assumption is increasingly getting tested.

Following rare back-to-back economic contractions in 2023 and 2024, German businesses are hopeful that a new government formed by the conservative CDU/CSU party and the center-left Social Democrats can revive Europe's largest economy in 2025.

In U.S. President Donald Trump's first term in office, he regularly posted boastful tweets when Wall Street hit fresh highs, taking credit for the record stock prices that he believed would fuel wider economic growth.

Musk's Starlink facing fresh competition from China's SpaceSail, Bezos's Project Kuiper Beijing investing heavily in LEO satellites that can supply reliable internetWestern analysts worried that Beijing could use satellites to expand internet censorship in Global SouthBy Nivedita Bhattac...

BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump says value-added taxes carry a lot of blame for America's near trillion dollar trade deficit with the rest of the world. The 170-plus countries who charge VAT - including top U.S. trade partners in Europe - insist they have no impact.

2025 will likely be a year of transformation and uncertainty. It could also be a year of opportunity for investors to review and adjust their portfolios as technology continues to disrupt business. Tapping into the multiple waves of innovation and identifying potentially profitable trades 1...

U.S. debt Cassandras can point to news of the country's record household debt figure last week as yet another sign that the day of reckoning for the heavily indebted nation is fast-approaching. But zoom out, and the bigger picture is rather less alarming.

Europe's leaders have long known the region is living beyond the means of its ageing, stagnant economy. The question is whether the ructions created by Donald Trump's second White House term mean they will do something about it.

The euro zone is showing early signs of an economic recovery that is unlikely to be derailed by the tariffs the Trump administration has threatened thus far. But that doesn’t mean European policymakers can let their guard down.

Looking ahead, although potential tariffs may introduce uncertainty to Thailand's foreign trade, fiscal spending is expected to continue supporting the economy.

While the seismic market moves caused by DeepSeek were short-lived, the release of the Chinese startup’s high-performing and inexpensive large language model is likely to have long-term implications for technology, trade, and economic relations between the U.S. and China.