Europe

Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England (BOE). The most important take-home from Thursday’s Bank of England (BOE) meeting is likely to be talk of what happens next. Analysts are divided on the coming year’s BOE forecast for interest rates and monetary …

Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Copper smelting at a metal refinery in Hamburg, Germany. Goldman Sachs is expecting the commodities sector to generate returns of almost 10 percent next year, more than other assets over the long run. Robust demand growth for raw materials worldwide should underpin the …

Getty Images | TOMAS HULIK | AFP Austria’s main gas pipeline hub at Baumgarten, Eastern Vienna, where an explosion rocked the site on Tuesday 12 December. An explosion at Austria’s main gas hub Tuesday has left one person dead and several injured, according to a report. Gas Connect Austria, which …

Mike Blake | Reuters Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reacts during a press conference after attending the Franchise Expo West in Los Angeles, California, November 2, 2017. The finance ministers of Europe’s five largest economies called in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for the U.S. to rethink tax reform …

Dario Pignatelli | Bloomberg via Getty Images Theresa May, U.K. prime minister, left, shakes hands with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, ahead of a meeting at the European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier told European lawmakers that a breakthrough …

Issouf Sanogo | AFP | Getty Images Burkina Faso troops stand guard outside Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou on January 18, 2016 following a jihadist attack by Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen late on January 15. Security forces are hunting for any possible surviving gunmen from the attack claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic …

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump poses with fellow world leaders during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. NATO has warned that U.S. concern over Iranian terror activity should not spell the end of a fragile nuclear deal. In 2015, a group of countries that …

Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a military exercise at a training ground on Sept. 18, 2017 at Luzhsky range near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday he would seek re-election in March 2018, a contest opinion polls show he will comfortably …

Stefan Rousseau | PA Images | Getty Image Brexit Secretary David Davis arriving in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting. Britain has not conducted a formal sector-by-sector analysis of the impact that leaving the European Union will have on the British economy, Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday, …

AURORE BELOT | AFP | Getty Images Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May walks behind flags of Europe as she arrives on the second day of a summit of European Union (EU) leaders and focusing on globalisation and migration, after the first day was dominated by the future of the EU …