Week Ending 29th August 2025 Stocks fell on Friday as investors took some money off the table into a long weekend following a new S&P 500 record and solid Nvidia earnings this week. New inflation data showed rising prices was still a risk heading into the new month. The S&P 500 ended the day 0.64% […]

German inflation accelerated more than expected in August, bringing an end to the disinflationary process of the last months and adding to the gloom on a day when unemployment topped three million for the first time in a decade. Inflation rose to 2.1%, preliminary data from the federal statistics office showed on Friday. Analysts polled […]

China’s economy lost momentum in July, with growth faltering across the board, as weak domestic demand persisted and Beijing intensified efforts to curb excess capacity. Retail sales last month rose 3.7% from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday, sharply missing analysts’ estimates for a 4.6% growth in a Reuters […]

The Bank of England has cut the interest rate for the fifth time in a year to 4% but warned that climbing food prices will cause inflation to jump higher in 2025. In a tight decision that saw members of the rate-setting committee vote twice to break a deadlock, the Bank cut the rate to […]

Euro zone inflation was unchanged at a higher-than-expected 2% in July, flash data from statistics agency Eurostat showed Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the figure to hit 1.9%, after a 2% reading in June. So-called core inflation, which strips out more volatile food, energy, alcohol and tobacco prices, came in at 2.3% in […]

Microsoft has become only the second publicly traded company after Nvidia to surpass $4 trn (£3.03trn) in market valuation, after registering huge earnings. On Thursday, shares rose on Wall Street with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq climbing to new record highs. Stocks in Microsoft jumped after posting better-than-expected results, helped by its Azure cloud computing […]