Economy

The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels in October 2022.

EU bought €197bn of Russian energy since 2022, European Commission says

The International Monetary Fund's headquarters in Washington; the 2026 annual meetings are being held in Bangkok.

IMF raises its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1%, with oil at $96 and public debt climbing

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič speaks at the EU Export Day in September 2026.

EU and China agree to cap hybrid car imports into the bloc at 350,000 a year

The seat of the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt skyline at dawn, in 2015.

Euro area inflation rises to 3.8% in September as energy costs jump 18.8% in a year

The Herbert C. Hoover Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Commerce, whose Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the PCE price index. Photographed in 2024.

August inflation came in at 3.4%, and traders halved the odds of an October Fed increase

The container terminal at the port of Busan, South Korea, in 2006. The port handles roughly 80% of the country's container cargo.

South Korea's exports hit a record $120.9 billion in September as chip sales jump 263%

John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in an official portrait taken in 2018.

Monetary policy

The Fed's Williams sees one more hike this year, but "no need for urgency" after September's increase

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino during an audience with the Colombian delegation in Panama City in March 2025.

Panama receives the final report on the Cobre Panamá mine, audited at 87.73 out of 100

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, whose department finalized the new fuel economy rule, in his official portrait taken in 2025.

NHTSA cuts the 2031 fuel economy target to 34.9 mpg, down from 50.4

Spain's Housing and Urban Agenda Minister, Isabel Rodríguez, on the steps of the Council of Ministers building in Madrid in November 2023.

Spain extends its eviction shield to 2030 and bars property purchases by vulture funds

A house for sale on Kevington Road in Eugene, Oregon, in 2017.

New-home sales climbed 6.4% in August to an annual rate of 684,000, and prices kept falling

The Petrobras headquarters in downtown Rio de Janeiro, pictured in 2012.

Petrobras signs 22-year deal to buy 800,000 tonnes of US LNG a year

The headquarters of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, in 2018. The IDB co-authored the report with the OECD and the World Bank.

Latin America spends $1,518 per person on health, a quarter of what the OECD spends

A shopper inspects a package of meat at an American grocery store, in a Department of Agriculture photograph from 2012.

US consumer confidence falls to 81.9, its lowest reading since 2014

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. The institute runs the Pnad Contínua survey.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.3% and employment reaches a record 103.5 million

Abelardo de la Espriella, now Colombia's president, in an image released during the 2026 presidential campaign.

Colombia opens talks with the IMF as its president says the state's balance is "in the red"

The Gatún Locks, in Panama's Colón province, in 2014.

September rains let the Panama Canal hold 32 daily transits through December

The E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in 2024.

Artificial intelligence

Appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over Claude's safeguards

An Audi Q3 of the F3 generation photographed in Stuttgart, Germany, in February 2019; the Q3 is the only Audi model included in the recall.

Volkswagen recalls 2.86 million cars worldwide over a steering bolt that can corrode

The facade of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC) at Avenida Julio A. Roca 609 in the City of Buenos Aires, in September 2018.

Poverty in Argentina climbs 4.1 points in six months to 32.3% of the urban population