Bloomberg The US labour market may not be as weak as February’s payrolls number suggested, but the report provides a reality check that a long-forecast slowdown is arriving. Employers added 20,000 jobs during the month, the fewest since September 2017, missing all economist estimates and bucking a recent trend of strong February readings. Analysts said the unexpectedly low figure doesn’t ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is showing signs he might fire his first rocket in 15 months. Long-time observers suspect he is bluffing. Two days after Kim’s summit with US President Donald Trump broke down over sanctions relief and disarmament steps last month, satellite images showed that North Korea was rebuilding a long-range rocket site it recently dismantled. The ...

Bloomberg Estonia’s ruling Center Party, the runner-up in parliamentary elections, unexpectedly invited anti-immigrant populists to coalition talks, raising the risk that nationalists may gain a voice in another European Union government. With the EU struggling to address gains made by euroskeptic nationalists in elections from Rome to Warsaw, Center invited the anti-establishment EKRE party and the junior ruling Isamaa to ...