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Line-up of pumpkins in the Netherlands, on Oct. 27, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Inflation in the 20-nation euro zone rose to 2% in October, preliminary figures released by statistics agency Eurostat showed Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a headline figure of 1.9%. The September headline reading was revised down to

Job creation in October slowed to its weakest pace since late 2020 as the impacts of storms in the Southeast and a significant labor impasse dented the employment picture. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 12,000 for the month, down sharply from September and below the Dow Jones estimate for 100,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported

In this article EQR IEX DHI SWK TSCO TYL HTLD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Voters walk to cast their ballots during early voting in the presidential election at a polling station at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library in Tampa, Florida, U.S., November 1, 2024.  Octavio Jones | Reuters Executives at America’s

Getty Images The jobs report for October came in much weaker than expected, and employment growth across different industries painted a mixed picture for the U.S. economy. The biggest contribution last month came from health care and social assistance, with 51,300 new positions added in that area, per data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A jobseeker holds flyers during the New York Public Library’s annual Bronx Job Fair & Expo at the the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx borough of New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.  Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images The unemployment rate for white Americans inched higher in October, according to data

Hiring signs outside a Stewart’s gas station in Catskill, New York, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.  Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Powerful hurricanes and a major labor strike could take a chunk out of the nonfarm payrolls count for October, which is expected to be the slowest month for job creation in

Inflation increased slightly in September and moved closer to the Federal Reserve’s target, according to a Commerce Department report Thursday. The personal consumption expenditures price index showed a seasonally adjusted 0.2% increase for the month, with the 12-month inflation rate at 2.1%, both in line with Dow Jones estimates. The Fed uses the PCE reading

Passers-by walk in the pedestrian zone of the Bavarian capital. Peter Kneffel | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Germany’s inflation surged to 2.4% in October, back above the European Central Bank’s 2% target, even as the country narrowly avoided a technical recession in the third quarter. The preliminary print, announced by German statistics office Destatis,

Ray Dalio speaking with CNBC at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 30, 2024. CNBC A postelection America worries U.S. billionaire Ray Dalio, who called for reforms numerous times amid a political landscape strife with what he views as irreconcilable differences between both Democratic and Republican parties. Speaking at the Future Investment

Human resources and technology concept for AI augmenting team work. Leowolfert | Istock | Getty Images The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been stunning in both its speed and impact. According to data from Goldman Sachs, investment in AI is expected to reach $100 billion in the U.S. and $200 billion globally by next

Consumers grew more optimistic about the U.S. economy heading into the contentious presidential election even as job openings hit multi-year lows, according to separate reports released Tuesday. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index for October rose more than 11% to a reading of 138, its biggest one-month acceleration since March 2021. Along with that, the

A delegate arrives at the King Abdulaziz Conference Centre in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh to attend the Future Investment Initiative (FII) forum. Fayez Nureldine | Afp | Getty Images Thousands of financiers, founders and investors are set to descend on the Saudi capital of Riyadh for the eighth edition of the kingdom’s Future Investment Initiative,

A general view shows the skyline over the central business district in Beijing on Feb. 28, 2023. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s parliament will hold a highly anticipated meeting Nov. 4 to 8, state media said Friday, according to a CNBC translation. Investors have been awaiting news of the gathering

09 June 2024, Russia, Moskau: A guardhouse of the Kremlin (l) and the Foreign Ministry (M, background) stand in the center of the capital. Photo: Ulf Mauder/dpa (Photo by Ulf Mauder/picture alliance via Getty Images) Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Russia’s central bank on Friday raised its key interest rate by 200

Christian Lindner, Germany’s finance minister, during a meeting Janet Yellen, US treasury secretary, not pictured, at the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images German Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Friday warned that if the U.S. kicked off

A man walks past signage for the the 2024 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings outside of the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC on October 18, 2024.  Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty Images Much of the world has managed to successfully lower inflation and engineer an economic soft landing, avoiding recession, but

Extreme tariffs proposed by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump would interrupt the path of disinflation and could lead to higher interest rates, according to the head of the Institute of International Finance. “The assumption is you’ll have higher inflation, higher interest rates than you would have in the absence of those tariffs,” Tim Adams, president

A man walks past signage for the the 2024 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings outside of the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC on October 18, 2024.  Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty Images The International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday that the public debt situation worldwide could be more dire than most think,