Tag: Economic Indicators

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Shoppers browse in a supermarket while wearing masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in north St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant/File Photo By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s economic advisers defended his policies on Sunday amid rising inflation that they said…

Inflation Fears Pose a Risk to Supercharged American Consumer (Bloomberg) — The recent spike in inflation risks denting the turbocharged spending growth that has fueled the U.S. economic recovery during the pandemic — at least in the short term. That’s the conclusion some economists drew from the unexpected slump in consumer sentiment reported Friday, driven…

© Reuters. The headquarter of the European Central Bank (ECB) is seen during sunset ahead of the ECB?s governing council meeting later this week in Frankfurt, Germany, October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach By Shrutee Sarkar BENGALURU (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation expectations are at risk of continuing to overshoot the European Central Bank’s 2% target…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A customer carries his daughter as he buys goods at a store inside a shopping mall in Kolkata, India, June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri By Tushar Goenka BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s retail inflation likely hovered near a six-month low in October as higher food and fuel prices were offset by…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman gives her first public remarks as a Fed policymaker at an American Bankers Association conference in San Diego, California, U.S., February 11 2019. REUTERS/Ann Saphir/File Photo (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Monday flagged a range of economic and financial stability risks posed…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday said Mexico’s recent inflationary pressures, while mostly temporary, pose a difficult balancing act amid still sizable slack in its…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Isabel Schnabel, member of the German advisory board of economic experts attends the 29th Frankfurt European Banking Congress (EBC) at the Old Opera house in Frankfurt, Germany November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank is aware of people’s fears about high inflation but is very unlikely to…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve threw its weight back behind the drive for a full U.S. jobs recovery on Wednesday, restating its belief that current high inflation is “expected…

© Reuters. A general view of the city skyline of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, August 5, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indonesia’s economic growth is expected to have slowed significantly in the third quarter as restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus Delta variant put the…