BERLIN—Nearly three out of five German industry associations are pessimistic about next year and expect their companies to produce less as high energy prices due to the war in Ukraine show no signs of abating, found a survey published Tuesday. Of the 49 associations surveyed by the IW economic institute, 30 said they expect their…

FRANKFURT—Eurozone consumer expectations for inflation in the year ahead rose in October but predictions for three years out held steady at a rate still well above the European Central Bank’s 2 percent target, the ECB said in a monthly survey on Wednesday. Inflation soared this year on sky high energy and food prices, and the…

BERLIN—A ship chartered by the operator of the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline has arrived at the site of last month’s explosions under the Baltic Sea to survey the damage, the company said Thursday. Undersea explosions late last month ruptured Nord Stream 1, which until Russia cut off supplies at the end of August…

Most Americans consider China’s military to be a serious problem for the United States and believe that the nation should continue relations with Taiwan regardless of China’s objections, according to a new poll. Some 86 percent of Americans said that they consider China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), to be a problem, with 50…

Public opinion of China has plummeted among the world’s most advanced economies under the reign of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping. A new global survey by the Pew Research Center found that the opinions of large majorities in the world’s developed nations had turned “precipitously more negative” regarding China due to the leadership…

By Janet Bodnar From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance How would you respond if someone asked you what advice you would give your younger self to improve your financial situation in retirement? In its Retiree Reflections Survey, the Employee Benefit Research Institute put that question to more than 1,000 retirees between the ages of 55 and 80….

An increasing number of Americans believe that China’s reigning communist regime considers itself to be at war with the United States, according to the results of a new national survey. Some 40 percent of likely American voters said that they believed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, considers it is…

Runaway inflation and lack of trust in the Bank of Canada mean a majority of Canadians are reluctant to make major purchases, a new Angus Reid Institute poll finds. June’s inflation rate was at 8 percent—the highest since January 1983. The online survey of 1,606  adults, conducted between July 18 and 20, found that 75…

Despite White House officials proclaiming the United States won’t enter a recession, more than half of respondents in a new poll say the country has hit the grim milestone. Results from a poll (pdf) carried out by The Economist and YouGov show that 56 percent of Americans think the United States is now in a…

Two-thirds of Canadians on the right of the political spectrum say that most stories in the news cover their beliefs unfairly, while less than one-quarter of Canadians on the left of that spectrum say the same, a recent survey found. The survey also found that two-thirds of Canadians on the right say they don’t trust…