Vance has never been a darling of the traditional free-market conservatives that dominate the Republican Vance party. Can he shape Trump’s policy?

Here are the four most important global elections of 2025:

Donald Trump will shortly be sworn in as the 47th President of the U.S., and financial markets are pivoting their focus to the anticipated

One of the most important lessons about Donald Trump’s 2924 election victory is that, in foresight, it was predictable long before election day.

Consumers are becoming increasingly confident in the economy, the December results rising for the fifth month in a row. This is according to preliminary results from the University of Michigan’s national December Survey of Consumers.

The German economy shrank for the second straight year in 2024 as worried consumers held back on spending and Chinese competition ate into the country’s traditional exports of cars and industrial machinery.

Trump’s choice of topics is always instructive, and last week’s press conference was a far cry from the one he held last August, when he used a collection of groceries as props to hammer Democrats on inflation. Suddenly, it seems Trump doesn’t want to talk so much about the economy anymore.

SLB helped lead the market after the provider of services to oilfields delivered bigger profit and revenue for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.

Europe's biggest economy shrank for a second year in a row in 2024, according to data released on Wednesday by the Federal Statistics Office. View on euronews

Newly released survey data shows that since President Donald Trump won the election and Republicans took control of the Senate, small business optimism is now higher

The uncomfortable truth for the chancellor and her party is, five months after their election victory, the economy was the same size as it was in July.

To maintain his electoral mandate, incoming President Trump will have to deliver the economic goods — but he will not be able to achieve any of these political objectives without continued