Global Economy Briefing — March 10, 2026

2026-03-10 - 09:13

The Big Three 1 German factory orders collapsed −11.1% MoM in January — the steepest drop in two years, more than double the −4.2% consensus — driven by a 39.4% plunge in fabricated metals and a 13.5% fall in machinery orders, compounding an already fragile industrial outlook. 2 Japan’s Q4 GDP printed +1.3% annualised —