Much of the world has managed to successfully lower inflation and engineer an economic soft landing, avoiding recession, but faces rising geopolitical risks and weaker long-term growth prospects, according to the International Monetary Fund. Global headline inflation will fall to 3.5% on an annual basis by the end of 2025,...
General view of the City of London skyline, the capital's financial district, in October.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its 2024 growth outlook for the United Kingdom, saying declines in interest rates and inflation would boost domestic demand.The IMF now...
Christian Klein, Co-CEO of German software and cloud computing giant SAP, speaks during a press conference to present SAP's financial results for 2019 on January 28, 2020 in Walldorf, southwestern Germany. - German software giant SAP reported a bottom line undermined by heavy restructuring costs, but lifted forecasts for...
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Cheesecake Factory — Shares gained more than 3% after activist investor JCP Investment Management built a stake in the company and asked it to consider spinning off three of its brands into a separate company. General Motors — Shares were...
The headquarters of the Norges Bank, Norway's central bank, in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNorway's gigantic sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday reported third-quarter profit of 835 billion Norwegian kroner ($76.3 billion).The so-called Government Pension Fund Global, one of the world's largest investors,...
The General Motors headquarters inside the Renaissance Center in Detroit on April 15, 2024.Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDETROIT — General Motors is set to report its third-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday.Here is what Wall Street is expecting, according to average estimates compiled by LSEG:Earnings per share:...