Despite economists warning of a potential recession, Donald Trump insists his tariff policies will make Americans "so rich."

The Fed recently voted to hold interest rates at a 22-year high, raising hopes among investors that it can achieve a so-called "soft landing" while avoiding further rate hikes.

Peru is the world's second-largest producer of copper. However, the country is currently experiencing a decline in private investment due to the El Nino weather phenomenon.

The Pew Center says numbers of undocumented immigrants in the United States are increasing again after they took a dip with US economy. Those numbers leaped throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Lawmakers debating what the government should do to keep those numbers down might take note of a 2007 paper pointing to border enforcement as a major reason for the rise.

The euro zone debt crisis dragged the bloc into its second recession since 2009 in the third quarter despite modest growth in Germany andFrance, data showed on Thursday.

The Spanish economy is falling deeper into recession and depositors are pulling their money out of the banks, figures published on Tuesday showed, while the country's most economically important region, Catalonia, said it needed a major rescue from Madrid.

World business surveys on Thursday painted a picture of economic malaise stretching from Beijing to Berlin, adding to concerns that the world economy was slowing down.