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“That is a concern for consumers across the board, and is one of the reasons they’re tightening their wallets a little bit.”

A look at the landscape for your job search: The jobs market is tightening, as companies pull back on hiring in the face of an uncertain economic outlook.

However, they think that the regulator’s preemptive tightening of rules reduces risk of more significant restrictions later on, and still see housing credit growth accelerating to 8% on-year by the middle of 2026.

Resilient factory activity and consumption despite headwinds from tariffs and inflation suggest that conditions for the Bank of Japan to resume monetary tightening are being met.

After a large influx of refugees into Sweden in 2015, many of whom were from Syria, successive left- and right-wing governments have tightened asylum and migration rules.