Bloomberg Trade between Ireland and both Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK continued to increase in the first half of 2022, despite an ongoing row over checks on goods as a result of the UK’s Brexit departure from the EU. Imports to Ireland from Great Britain from January to June grew 54% from the same period a ...

  Bloomberg The water level at a key waypoint on the Rhine River is forecast to stay extremely low for the rest of the week, signalling the continuation of severe restrictions for shipments of vital commodities along the Europe’s most important waterway. The marker at Kaub, a shallow point on the river west of Frankfurt, is currently at 31 centimeters ...

  Bloomberg US stock-index futures slipped and the dollar rises as investors fretted over signs of a sharp economic slowdown even as the Federal Reserve stays on the path of monetary tightening. September contracts on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes dropped 0.2% each after the equity benchmarks advanced. Crude oil retreated amid economic headwinds that clouded the demand ...