Year: 2024

China’s Geely announced on Thursday that its premium electric vehicle (EV) brand, Zeekr, will take control of its sister brand Lynk & Co. This marks the first major restructuring move in Geely’s planned overhaul of its extensive automotive portfolio. Geely Holding, which owns both Zeekr and Lynk alongside ten other…

**BAKU (Reuters)** – Negotiators at COP29 were urged on Thursday to either invest now to help poorer nations adapt to climate change or face higher costs in the future. Experts stressed that developing countries will need at least $1 trillion annually by the end of the decade to shift to…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone employment rose a touch more than expected last quarter and the economy expanded at a respectable pace, keeping alive hopes for a soft landing after more than a year of near-stagnation, fresh data showed on Thursday. Employment in the 20-nation euro zone grew by 0.2%…

European stock markets displayed a mixed performance on Thursday, with investors processing a flurry of corporate earnings alongside regional growth and employment figures. As of 03:05 ET (08:05 GMT), Germany’s DAX index was up 0.6%, while France’s CAC 40 rose 0.2%. However, the UK’s FTSE 100 saw a slight decline…

Spain’s EU-harmonized 12-month inflation rose to 1.8% in October, up from 1.7% in September, according to final data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) on Thursday. This 12-month inflation rate matched both INE’s flash estimate from two weeks ago and the average forecast from analysts surveyed by Reuters. Core…

India’s wholesale price-based inflation accelerated to 2.36% year-on-year in October, from 1.84% inSeptember, government data released on Thursday showed.Economists polled by Reuters had estimated wholesale price inflation at 2.2%.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) should raise interest rates to at least 1% to reverse the “abnormally” large stimulus that is contributing to a weakening yen, according to Takeshi Shina, the shadow finance minister of Japan’s largest opposition party. In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Shina argued that the…

**WASHINGTON (Reuters)** — President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party is projected to control both chambers of Congress when he takes office in January, giving him the leverage to advance his agenda of tax cuts and reducing the size of the federal government, according to Edison Research. Republicans are expected to secure…

Dogecoin extends gains after Trump forms DOGE  Meme token Dogecoin rose on 9.1% to $0.394493 on Thursday, extending recent gains and remaining close to its strongest level since May 2021.  Traders speculated whether Trump’s DOGE agency was a reference to the meme token, and whether it would entail any official recognition of…

Cross-border challenges are contributing to the widening gap in economic output between Europe and the U.S., a trend that has been accelerating since the 1990s, according to a study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF report shows that the European Union’s GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power…