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Spain orders olive oil mills to store 12% of output, taking about 188,000 tonnes off the market
The first use of the measure follows a forecast harvest of 1.6 million tonnes and producer prices near 3 euros a kilo, down from 4 a year ago.
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The ECB backs an optional 28th company law regime and cites Delaware
An Economic Bulletin article argues the fragmentation of company law across the EU limits cross-border capital formation, and supports the Commission's March 2026 EU Inc. proposal.
Barr sets housing affordability beside a line on further adjustments
The Fed governor spoke on the long-term costs of shelter in Chicago, citing the Atlanta Fed's affordability monitor and two decades in which real incomes rose far more slowly than home prices.
An ECB discussion paper asks what AI does to price discovery
Discussion Paper 32 surveys how AI changes information production, labour demand and intermediation in securities markets, and what that implies for efficiency, competition and financial stability.
Three indices crossed the desk today. Only one of them can force a trade
An export similarity index, an index built from newspaper sentences, and a market classification. Two describe the world; the third is written into contracts, which makes it a different kind of object entirely.
India's short bills clear higher across all three tenors
The RBI's 23 September Treasury bill auction cleared at 5.3900%, 5.8196% and 6.0895%, with all three notified amounts fully accepted — every cut-off above the equivalent a week earlier.
BoJ retires the Great East Japan Earthquake facility, effective May 2027
A four-part amendment from the September Monetary Policy Meeting rewrites the loan rate on four Bank of Japan facilities to one formula, and strikes the 2011 disaster designation with effect from 31 May 2027.
Two index providers move Greece to developed on the same day
FTSE Russell's reclassification took effect on 21 September, shifting 62 Greek stocks out of emerging benchmarks; STOXX made the same change simultaneously, putting nine Athens names into the Europe 600.
Treasury refreshes the manual behind the UK's consolidated balance sheet
HM Treasury updated its 2025-26 preparers' pack for Whole of Government Accounts on 22 September: two data collection tool guides running to 161 and 143 pages, plus mapping spreadsheets.
ECB puts a number on how alike German and Chinese exports have become
An Economic Bulletin box measures the overlap between Chinese and EU export baskets from 2019 to 2025 and finds the sharpest convergence in the bloc's manufacturing-heavy economies.
Fed clears BancFirst to take over SpiritBank in an all-Oklahoma deal
The Board approved BancFirst Corporation's acquisition of Spirit BankCorp and the merger of SpiritBank into BancFirst, with the branch network carried over.