Germany likely to tip into recession, Bundesbank warns
Germany’s central bank has warned that Europe’s largest economy is likely to tip into recession in the third quarter, dragged...
- Monday, June 08, 2026
BusinessDay
Germany’s central bank has warned that Europe’s largest economy is likely to tip into recession in the third quarter, dragged...
Spain has said it is ready to allow a boat stranded off the coast of Italy carrying almost 150 migrants to dock, in a move that highlights the growing tensions between Madrid and Rome on immigration. ...
Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters staged a peaceful protest through central Hong Kong on Sunday in defiance of increasingly threatening rhetoric from Beijing. ...
Gibraltar has rejected a US legal request to seize the Iranian tanker that has been at the centre of a stand-off between Iran and the west. ...
Brussels is to revive a blacklist of non-EU countries which it accuses of money laundering, after a previous attempt was shot down by European capitals when it named Saudi Arabia and four overseas US territories. ...
Officials close to prime minister Boris Johnson have accused a “former minister” of leaking details of Operation Yellowhammer, the contingency planning for leaving the EU without a deal, and claimed that “the entire posture of the government” has shifted in the past month. ...
China’s Alibaba trumped analysts’ expectations with a strong rise in sales, contrasting with its rival Tencent which one day earlier disappointed the market by falling short with a more modest quarterly growth....
The growing pool of negative-yielding debt makes this a hostile environment for most bond investors. Yet some hedge funds have still managed to find ways to turn a profit from the advent of sub-zero rates....
Aclutch of migrants who are stranded off the coast of Italy awaiting permission to land have become the latest focus of the political battle between the country’s warring coalition parties....
The UK Labour party has set out proposals to form a temporary government in early September that would request an extension to Article 50 in a bid to avoid a no-deal Brexit before calling a general election....