Reports of the demise of US inflation have been greatly exaggerated. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter ...
Most U.S. stocks rose following an encouraging update on inflation, but drops for Eli Lilly and some other influential stocks ...
Economists polled by Reuters expect Wednesday’s US consumer price index to show inflation of 2.8 per cent in December, up from 2.7 per cent a month earlier. They anticipate that core inflation, which ...
Unhedged feels only a little reassurance. We thought inflation was all but beaten four months ago, and were wrong; once burnt, and all that. Despite this good report, however you look at it, core ...
Consumer demand remains soft and there are growing signs of “cracks” in the labour market, leaving the ECB “increasingly behind the curve with its slow loosening cycle”, according to Tomas Dvorak, an ...
Let’s face it, while they are intellectually fascinating, there are no good news stories about bond markets. It’s always “someone’s defaulted”, “someone’s crashing the economy”, or some other such ...
The good news is not expected to last as inflation creeps up in the coming months as the rise in employer’s national ...
Then there are the doves — those who fixate more on maximising employment and output growth while tolerating greater inflation risk. Hawks prefer to keep interest rates high while doves prefer them ...
Yields down, stocks up. After government bonds sold off sharply the week before, buyers were back after favourable inflation prints calmed investors’ nerves in the US and UK in the past week. As far ...
The ECB is right to regard the recent inflation numbers as encouraging, but not to make markets believe such low rates should prevail in the near future. Price stability, while in sight, isn’t yet ...
which is that inflation might stabilise below the target,” he said. Asked about a recent Financial Times survey in which many economists stated that the ECB has been too slow to cut interest ...
Shares in UK bakery chain Greggs fell more than 10 per cent on Thursday with the company blaming weak consumer confidence for ...