Quickly informed:
Purchasing managers’ indices for the US and China fell last week, while sentiment among companies in the euro area and Germany improved somewhat. The success of the Chinese AI DeepSeek R1 is causing a stir. Is China further along with technology than expected? The key interest rate decisions by the Fed and the ECB are the focus this week. The markets are also looking at, among other things, inflation developments and the consumer climate in Germany as well as GDP figures for the USA and the Eurozone.
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