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Would she bring continuity with Joe Biden’s policies? A more centrist vibe? A sharper progressive bite? Industries including tech, energy and pharma want to know.

Lagarde shrugs off sticky inflation but takes a gloomier view of the economy.

The island democracy off the coast of China has wooed friends in every U.S. faction and region — and that’s its greatest source of strength and protection.

The far-right National Rally remains Euroskeptic and suspicious of NATO despite recent toned-down rhetoric.

Reports of financial chaos in France have been vastly overstated, Europe’s economic elite say. Instead, the U.S. election is the one to watch.

Markets will certainly make their position known if politicking threatens to stretch public finances.

Everything now is just a euphemism for financial repression and austerity. That doesn’t stop politicians looking for magical alternatives.

Meloni’s careful stewardship of the Italian economy has been rewarded by Europe’s famously fickle financial markets. But chaos across the Alps could draw unwanted attention to Italy’s huge debt pile. 

The leader of France’s National Rally reignited market unease after hinting that a major fight with the EU is still on the cards.

The rise of the far right is sending tremors through financial markets and could push French debt deeper into the danger zone.

Reform UK thinks they can raise up to £40 billion to fund tax cuts by treating banks’ QE reserves differently.

In the first of his two addresses in France, Biden makes the case for international alliances.

In addition to military situation, Foreign Minister Rasmussen says no guarantee recent U.S. package for Kyiv won’t be the last.

MPs are chafing at the cost of quantitative tightening.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, regulators fear that the part of the financial system that sits outside of banks has absorbed all the risk.

Europe’s rescue fund has nothing left to rescue. It could now become governments’ silver bullet for military investment instead.

The meeting comes days ahead of Chinese leader’s trip to France and tensions over potential EU car tariffs

Dubbed the “plank of England” by one newspaper, Andrew Bailey hasn’t always been the most popular figure — but, perversely, criticism from Truss has helped.

Pledges to take Russian money to help Ukraine face a litany of legal and tactical quandaries.

The currency weakened as the ECB signals it plans start cutting rates before the Fed.

The battle for the narrative has swung again, now that prices are (nearly) behaving themselves.

European foreign ministers have ‘a real role to play’ in lobbying the senior U.S. Republican, Britain’s top diplomat says.

Poland’s coalition is trying to rid public institutions of the former right-wing Law and Justice government’s influence.

But it would rather markets didn’t confuse the new structures with monetary policy.