Italian firms less gloomy on outlook as inflation eases -central bank survey
MILAN (Reuters) – The opinion of Italian businesses on the prospects for the economy improved in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared with the previous …
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Japan household spending suffers biggest drop in 2-1/2 years; outlook not as gloomy
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese household spending suffered its biggest drop in nearly 2-1/2 years squeezed by rising prices, although volatility in some items meant the …
Gloomy Spirit, Expedia reports drag travel stocks lower on demand slowdown fears
(Reuters) – U.S. travel stocks fell in early trading on Thursday following downbeat quarterly reports from Spirit Airlines and Expedia that amplified concerns domestic demand …
Investors, analysts question Nike’s wholesale strategy amid gloomy N. American spending
By Katherine Masters and Ananya Mariam Rajesh NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some analysts and investors question Nike’s move to sell its sneakers and clothing through …
UK retail sales fall in May after April rise, outlook less gloomy: CBI
LONDON (Reuters) – British retail sales declined this month after a modest rise in April but stores expect sales volumes to stabilise in June as …
Airbnb’s gloomy forecast weighs on hotel, airline stocks
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gloomy forecast from vacation rental firm Airbnb weighed on travel-related stocks on Wednesday as an expected slowdown …
U.S. company comments suggest upbeat demand despite gloomy forecasts
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors worried the U.S. could be on the brink of a recession may be relieved by some early …
UK retail sales flat in Feb after Jan fall, outlook gloomy: CBI
LONDON (Reuters) -British retail sales held steady in February after falling in January but stores expected sales volumes to slip again in March as the …
Japan manufacturers gloomy as global slowdown hurts – Reuters Tankan
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Big manufacturers in Japan remained gloomy in February and the service-sector mood slid for a second straight month, a …
Marketmind: Gloomy economic signals
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. South Korea and the Philippines’ GDP data are …
Davos 2023: CEOs most gloomy on growth in more than a decade -PwC survey
By Divya Chowdhury and Anisha Sircar DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Confidence among companies in their growth prospects has dropped the most since the 2007-08 global …
Nearly three in five German industry associations foresee gloomy 2023
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nearly three out of five German industry associations are pessimistic about next year and expect their companies to produce less as high …
Euro zone credit growth remains brisk despite gloomy outlook
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bank lending to euro zone companies held steady, maintaining the sector’s biggest borrowing binge in over a decade, despite rising interest rates …
Marketmind: Gloomy enough?
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. As Americans digest turkey feasts and head to the shops, they …
German 2022 industry output to rise slightly, 2023 looks gloomy – BDI
BERLIN (Reuters) – German industrial production is on track to rise slightly this year thanks to order backlogs but the outlook for 2023 is gloomy …
U.S. retailers knocked as Target warns on gloomy sales outlook
(Reuters) – Shares in U.S. retailers slid in premarket trade on Wednesday after Target Corp warned of a gloomy outlook for crucial holiday quarter sales …
Walmart, Target results will tell how gloomy holidays could get for retailers
By Aishwarya Venugopal and Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) – Walmart and Target results this week are likely to show that major retailers are heading for …
Euro zone credit growth rises again, despite gloomy outlook
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bank lending to euro zone companies accelerated further in September, extending the sector’s biggest borrowing binge in over a decade, despite rising …
UK manufacturers gloomy about near-term outlook – CBI
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British manufacturers expect the biggest drop in production since the start of last year over the next three months, a …
New Zealand consumers, businesses gloomy, economic risks grow
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – New Zealand is at growing risk of sliding into a recession in the second half of 2022, some economists said …
New Zealand business confidence slightly less gloomy
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – New Zealand business sentiment improved slightly in July but remained gloomy in the face of intense inflation pressures, an ANZ …
Russian disposable incomes drop in Q2 as economic data paints gloomy outlook
MOSCOW – Real disposable incomes in Russia fell 0.8% in the second quarter of 2022, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, with rising prices and restrictions …
Big banks’ Q2 earnings to shed light on gloomy U.S. mortgage outlook
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK – U.S. analysts and economists will be watching to see how banks’ mortgage businesses are faring during their second-quarter …
‘Gloomy’ Dutch consumers hit by pessimism about economy, war in Ukraine
– Dutch consumer confidence deteriorated in March due to growing pessimism about the economy and the war in Ukraine, the Dutch Statistics Office CBS announced …
Hong Kong’s Nov-Jan unemployment unchanged at 3.9%, outlook gloomy
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.9% in the November-January quarter, the government said on Monday, and the outlook …