Shoppers buy fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs at an outdoor produce market under green-striped canopies in Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, on April 19, 2025.Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesEuro zone inflation was unchanged at 2.2% in April, missing expectations for a move lower, flash data from statistics agency Eurostat showed...
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U.S. payroll growth totals 177,000 in April, defying expectations
Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners.Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the Bureau...
U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter as Trump policy uncertainty weighed on businesses
The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025 on an import surge at the start of President Donald Trump's second term in office as he wages a potentially costly trade war.Gross domestic product, a sum of all the goods and services produced from January through March, fell...
Consumer outlook hits lowest since 2011 as tariff fears mount, Conference Board survey shows
Consumer attitudes about both the present and near future dimmed again in April, as tariffs dented sentiment and confidence in employment hit levels last seen around the global financial crisis.The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell to 86 on the month, down 7.9 points from its prior reading and below...
Inflation job nearly done but tariff risks loom — What European Central Bank members said this week
Guests and attendeess mingle and walk through the atrium during the IMF/World Bank Group Spring Meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty ImagesAfter years dominated by the pandemic, supply chains, energy and inflation, there was a new topic topping...