Bloomberg France’s Yellow Vest movement staged mostly peaceful anti-government rallies on January 5 for the eighth weekend in a row but the protests ended with a small group smashing down the entrance to the ministry of the government spokesman. French television showed thousands marching along the Seine in Paris to gather in front of the National Assembly as well as ...

Bloomberg Hungarian anti-government demonstrations showed no sign of abating after almost a month of rallies that have snowballed from workers’ demands to scrap a law on more overtime hours to a call for the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s illiberal rule. After a holiday lull, thousands of people gathered in Budapest to resume the most sustained protest wave against ...

Bloomberg Strong data and soothing words pulled markets out of a tailspin last week, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have plenty of chances next week to bring traders closer to policy makers’ viewpoint on interest rates. Surprisingly robust US labour figures helped close some of the gap between investors and the Fed’s projections, which imply two ...