Economy

A six-row corn harvester at work on the John N. Mills and Sons farm in Hanover County, Virginia, in September 2013.

USDA has promised American farmers more than $15 billion in the weeks before Tuesday's midterms

The server room of a data centre run by BalticServers, in Lithuania, in 2013.

Foreign investment

Foreign investment in Brazil's information and communication sector hits record US$5.6 billion through September

The $6.3 billion Binance theft is the largest in crypto history, and two tracing firms point to North Korea

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen during a visit to the United Kingdom in June 2026.

Eleven EU countries will release 20.5 million barrels of diesel from strategic reserves by the end of January

The Herbert C. Hoover Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., home of the Department of Commerce, whose Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the GDP and PCE figures, photographed in 2024.

US growth accelerates to a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter, with September inflation stuck at 3.6%

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in a 2007 photograph.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.2% in the third quarter, the lowest for the period since 2012, as employment hits a record 103.6 million

Heads of delegation pose for photographs at the first Russia-Africa Summit, held in Sochi, Russia, in October 2019.

Russia-Africa Summit

Russia-Africa summit brings 48 countries to Moscow as Putin pitches lifting trade from $27 billion to more than $50 billion

The headquarters of the Tribunal de Contas da União in Brasília, where the court cleared the calculation of the CBS rate.

Brazil's federal audit court sets the new consumption tax reference rate at 11.3% for 2027

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, on the left, and European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera at a press conference on the bloc's energy package in March 2026.

European gas tops €100 per MWh for the first time since December 2022, and Brussels warns of "another energy crisis"

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, on the right, during a visit to the European Commission in June 2025.

Monetary policy

ECB holds deposit rate at 2.5% with euro-area inflation at 3.8%, and markets now bet on a December hike

The Marriner S. Eccles Building, the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2011.

Monetary policy

The Fed holds its rate at 3.75%-4% in a 10-2 vote, and both dissenters wanted an increase

An oil pumpjack working a well in the Permian Basin near Monahans, Texas, in March 2026.

EPA moves to rescind the methane super-emitter program and says the rollback will save $45 billion

The Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York, in 2021. Anthropic has asked to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Anthropic files to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with first-half revenue of $16.3 billion

The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in the European quarter of Brussels, in 2015.

Brussels accepts Temu's plan against illegal products five months after fining it €200 million

The São Paulo Stock Exchange building, in the city's downtown, in 2007.

Brazilian stocks fall 13.88% and trigger first circuit breaker since 2020 in the first session after Lula's re-election

A Cemex concrete mixer in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, in 2023. The United States is the Mexican cement maker's second-largest market by EBITDA.

Cemex earns $407 million in the third quarter, up 55%, and posts a record quarterly free cash flow of $723 million

The sign at Audi AG's corporate headquarters on Auto-Union-Straße in Ingolstadt, Germany, in April 2026.

Audi will build its first US plant in Georgia, a roughly $4 billion project for 4,500 jobs and 200,000 vehicles a year

The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran to the north and the Arabian Peninsula to the south, in a December 2020 image from NASA's Terra satellite.

Brent settles at $116.72, a six-month high, as Houthi attacks hit Saudi energy infrastructure

A Lunds & Byerlys supermarket in Minnetonka, Minnesota, photographed in 2019.

Consumer sentiment

US consumer sentiment ends October at 48, its lowest since May, with year-ahead inflation expectations at 4.7%

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers inspect commercial trucks at the Detroit–Windsor truck ferry port of entry in Detroit, Michigan, in August 2022.

Trump reshuffles the 50% tariff list on Canada, dropping plywood and packaging and adding flooring, carpets and valves