Hungary’s surplus in external trade in goods reached EUR 665 million in February, narrowing by EUR 342 mln year-on-year as import growth outpaced exports, according to the latest data. According to data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), export volume fell by 2.3% compared with the same month a year earlier, while import volume
Wednesday 01 April 2026 5:21 am | Updated: Tuesday 31 March 2026 6:10 pm Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves. PA Photo. Yui Mok/PA Wire Supermarkets begin preparing for Christmas at least six months before the anticipated peak of customer demand hits around December 23. Catering for this entirely predictable surge is in itself an
During a Tuesday, March 31 appearance on MS NOW host Ari Melber’s show “The Beat,” liberal economist Paul Krugman delivered some bad news about gas prices —which, he warned, are going to get even higher if U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against Iran lasts a long time. Krugman explained that “the world has been living
Tuesday 31 March 2026 6:29 am | Updated: Tuesday 31 March 2026 9:35 am Oil prices have climbed sharply since war in the Middle East broke out Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Oil prices are on track for its biggest monthly gain on record for March following the outbreak of
Supporters of President Donald Trump want to know where their money is. It has been a little over a year since he’s been in office, and MAGA is questioning why he hasn’t solved the affordability crisis. Bloomberg News spoke to conservatives at a conservative conference over the weekend, where no one with the last name
Some portray Hungary’s banking sector as fragmented; certainly, Minister for National Economy Márton Nagy seems to think so. Yet others say core indicators suggest a system that is profitable, well capitalized and structurally stable. Bernadett Herman, banking market expert and contributor to the Hungarian financial and business news portal Privátbankár, tells the Budapest Business Journal
President Donald Trump meddled in the free market during his first term and created a “dumb industrial policy” that he is only now starting to fix, according to a prominent conservative newspaper. In a Monday evening editorial, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board claimed telecom mogul Charlie Ergen had been rescued by a regulatory system
Sunday 29 March 2026 10:30 pm | Updated: Monday 30 March 2026 6:19 am Starmer will meet business leaders. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images) A number of senior leaders from the likes of HSBC, Goldman Sachs and Shell will meet with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Monday as the government scrambles to help ease
President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is hurting farm workers who are already vulnerable because of his tariffs — and a new report sketches out the details with vivid portraits of those suffering because of MAGA politics. “The vice president of operations at Sequoia Nut Co. had shipped 15 containers of almonds, walnuts and pistachios
Friday 27 March 2026 6:47 am | Updated: Friday 27 March 2026 9:28 am Trump has hinted at an end to the Iran war. (Image: Getty Images) Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Another pause has been slapped on Donald Trump’s pledge to “obliterate” Iranian power plants, should the nation not
