The Senate cleared a stopgap before the midterms while rolling strikes hit BHP's Port Hedland and evidence of UK consumer stress piled up.
Slowing private hiring, a dollar knocked to six-week lows by joint U.S.-Japan yen intervention, and a four-session gold rally all point the same direction ahead of Friday's payrolls.
Coordinated intervention pulled the yen off 40-year lows just as U.S. manufacturing hit a four-year high, setting up a heavy labor-data week.
Hotel revenue per room has fallen 6% year-on-year through late July even as UK factory output grows at its fastest pace in nearly two years — a widening split in the global demand picture.
Youth unemployment near 40% among Indian graduates, hundreds of displaced Volkswagen managers and a $17.40 California wage floor describe the same economy from three different rungs.
Nuclear output is being cut on the Danube, UK wholesale lettuce is up 90%, and the ECB is warning the transmission runs into financial stability.
Wildfires across France and Spain and a forecast 'Super El Niño' add pressure to commodity markets even as BofA says the K-shaped consumer spending gap has closed.
BofA flagged a closing K-shaped consumer spending gap as China moved to tax offshore trusts and Australia's housing slowdown began weighing on its broader economy.
Australia and India are pushing back on new Trump tariffs while China deepens its trade and green-energy inroads amid Middle East disruption to oil markets.