Bloomberg Surveillance

The European Union is striking a more assertive approach to China as it heads into two days of negotiations in Beijing aimed at avoiding an economically damaging trade war.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is recruiting two assistant governors and a chief of staff as Governor Anna Breman overhauls the central bank’s senior ranks almost a year into the job.

Historical figures including the UK’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill will be replaced on the country’s banknotes by images of an Atlantic puffin, a barn owl, a buff-tailed bumblebee and a European hedgehog, the Bank of England said.

British businesses are looking to hire more workers for the first time in over two years, according to a closely watched survey suggesting the labor market is turning a corner.

British property agents say aspiring homebuyers are retreating to the sidelines as the Bank of England considers raising interest rates.

Argentina’s economy is on track to enter a technical recession after a lukewarm recovery in August failed to make up for steeper losses in July, adding to President Javier Milei’s challenges ahead of next year’s election.

US consumer borrowing rose in August by less than forecast, restrained by the biggest decline in revolving credit in nearly two years.

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin warned that the artificial-intelligence investment boom could bring major productivity gains but also create financial and social risks that markets may not be fully pricing.

All 19 Federal Reserve officials backed the decision in September to raise interest rates, with many supporting the move to guard against the risk of intensifying inflation pressures.

France’s finance ministry said it is not changing its strategy for bond issuance and will continue to use the flexibility it has at auctions.

Americans’ expectations for inflation in the short-term jumped last month while their sentiment toward the labor market improved, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey released Wednesday.

Bangladesh’s gross domestic product expanded 4.60% in the April-June quarter, compared with the 2.05% pace a year earlier, according to provisional data released by the Bureau of Statistics Wednesday.

Kenya’s central bank kept its benchmark rate unchanged as policymakers took a wait-and-see approach in assessing what impact energy shocks stemming from the Iran war will have on the economy and inflation.

Poland’s central bank kept interest rates on hold for a seventh month after the government cut fuel prices, easing inflationary pressures for the time being.

Indian households expect inflation to rise sharply over the next three months and one year, reflecting concerns over price pressures that prompted the central bank to increase the benchmark rate for the first time in nearly four years.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a series of questions to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on what she dubbed “unprecedented and chaotic” interventions in the US Treasuries market.

Global goods trade is withstanding the drags of tariffs, wars and geopolitical rifts, fueled by the boom in demand for artificial intelligence gear and staying resilient as the US and China rewire their economic dependencies, a new report showed.

China warned the European Union it has several tools including foreign-subsidy probes and anti-discrimination measures at its disposal if trade tensions worsen, according to a social media account affiliated with its state broadcaster.

From street protests to a bond market rout, France’s multiple crises are threatening to drag the European Central Bank into the kind of faceoff with investors that it hasn’t seen since the euro area’s debt crisis more than a decade ago.

The fuel supply squeeze is threatening to stoke a new wave of food inflation