Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is facing a bleak outlook for 2024, as it struggles with the fallout of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, labor shortages and weak global demand.

Reddit, the popular online forum where millions of users post, comment and vote on a variety of topics, has signed a lucrative deal to sell its vast trove of user-generated content to an unnamed artificial intelligence company

Economists have a dismal track record of predicting recessions, often missing them completely or being too late to recognize them.

The sale, which took place on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8, is part of a plan that Bezos announced last week to sell up to 50 million shares of Amazon over the next year, with an estimated market value of $8.4 billion.

PayPal Holdings, the digital payments giant, said on Tuesday that it would cut about 2,500 jobs, or 9 percent of its global workforce, this year, as it faces increasing pressure from competitors and rising costs.