The country’s adjusted misery index dropped to 18.5% last year from 22.2% in 2023, based on latest data available from the Philippine Statistics Authority. In 2024, the underemployment rate hit an all ...

The consumer confidence index is down 19% in the four months since Election Day. Also, note that California’s optimism was at a 14-month high in October. Historically speaking, February’s ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc secured 208 out of 630 seats in the lower house of parliament, meaning its leader, Friedrich Merz, will have to navigate complicated coalition ...

Voters turned out in record numbers for the German election. Here’s a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Germany’s most prominent leading indicator, the Ifo index, just signalled that the next government cannot count on any cyclical tailwind, yet. Coming in at 85.2 in February, from 85.1 in January, the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s election on Sunday delivered a win to the conservative opposition as well as a historic surge in support for the far-right AfD party. Here is a breakdown in graphics ...