Bloomberg Talks to form a three-way coalition government in Germany risk getting bogged down over finance and budget matters, based on divergent policy objectives outlined by leaders of the two junior parties over the weekend. Volker Wissing, secretary-general of the business-friendly FDP, said his party won’t accept tax increases or a loosening of the so-called debt brake, according to a ...

Bloomberg Canada has recovered all of the roughly three million jobs lost to Covid-19. The country’s economy added 157,100 jobs in September, returning the labour market to pre-pandemic levels, Statistics Canada said in Ottawa. That compares with economists’ expectation of 60,000 new jobs, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. The unemployment rate fell to 6.9% from 7.1% ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s consumer prices rise less than expected in September, supporting the central bank’s view that inflation peaked just above 10% and will start to slow as rising borrowing costs cool down the economy. Inflation accelerated to 10.25% from a year ago, its fastest pace since February 2016, and to 1.16% from the month prior, the national statistics institute reported. ...