INT

  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 2 min read

Machine learning promises to improve weather forecasts

Promising new research from Google DeepMind asserts its machine learning (ML) model can predict weather more accurately

International
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 2 min read

Concerns will grow over industry climate commitments

UAE leadership of COP28 is reinforcing scepticism about the summit’s potential to generate real climate change solutions

International
  • Nov 16, 2023
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Japan’s economic activity is swiftly softening

Export volumes fell in October and third-quarter GDP contracted

Japan
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 11 min read

Prospects for world trade and supply chains in 2024

Supply chain conditions have normalised but world trade flows will remain weak into 2024

International
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 2 min read

China's activity is stabilising on a weaker path

Activity improved modestly in October, with retail sales and industrial output picking up and unemployment unchanged

China
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 2 min read

Many major European economies face stagflation

The European Commission has reduced its 2023/24 forecasts for euro-area growth and raised its forecast of 2023 inflation

EU
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 2 min read

Early rate cuts are unlikely even as US CPI eases

Consumer price inflation slowed to 3.2% in October as prices of energy, food, services and housing moved downwards

United States
  • Nov 14, 2023
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State-linked cyber threat to infrastructure is rising

Geopolitical tensions have increased the state-linked threat to Western critical infrastructure, according to UK agency

United Kingdom