INT

  • Jan 5
  • 2 min read

Washington will welcome doubts over Chinese chips leap

A teardown of latest Huawei hardware casts doubt over China's capabilities to produce the most advanced semiconductors

United States
  • Jan 5
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ECB will be cautious about cutting rates too early

Headline inflation rose from 2.4% to 2.9% in December as energy price falls stabilised and services prices picked up

EU
  • Jan 5
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Food price slowdown will be very slow and very uneven

Food prices fell for the 19th month in 21 but remain 27% higher than at the start of 2019; sugar prices fell promisingly

International
  • Jan 4
  • 2 min read

PMIs signal services bottoming out above manufacturing

UK and euro-area services PMIs point to services gradually recovering after a shallow downturn

EU
  • Jan 4
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US job market is slowing in line with Fed assumptions

Job vacancies, quits and hiring fell modestly in November, in line with the labour market slowing steadily

United States
  • Jan 3
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Dutch chip move against China will not end EU-US rift

The Dutch government has barred semiconductor manufacturer ASML from selling two advanced lithography systems to China

Netherlands
  • Jan 3
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Climate finance will grow but huge challenges persist

The COP28 aims of “transitioning away” from fossil fuels and tripling renewable energy capacity require huge investment

International
  • Jan 2
  • 2 min read

Europe’s long manufacturing downturn will last longer

Europe’s latest manufacturing PMIs indicate that the long downturn will persist

EU