The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) increased by 0.4% in August 2014 after a decline by 0.3% in July 2014. Seasonally adjusted, it was up 0.1%. The CPI grew by 0.4% in the year to August 2014, down from +0.5% in July 2014. The steepest consumer price increases in August 2014 came mainly from seasona…
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French consumer prices rose by 0.4%, year-on-year
Back in the summer of 2008, when crude seemed poised to take out $150, Goldman decided to declare the start of a commodity supercycle and boosted its oil price forecast to $200. Shortly thereafter crude cratered, plunging to the low double digits, and causing many to scratch their heads whether…
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Goldman Declares The "End Of The Iron Age"
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Consumer prices in Germany rose by 0.8% in August 2014 compared with August 2013. In July 2014, the inflation rate as measured by the consumer price index was +0.8%, too. A lower rate of price increase was last measured in February 2010 (+0.5%). Compared with July 2014, consumer prices remained…
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German Consumer prices in August 2014: +0.8% on August 2013
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that its Global Broking division has been voted “Overall Interdealer Broker of the Year” in Risk magazine’s 2014 Interdealer Rankings, for the second year running. ICAP…
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Australian employers added a record number of jobs in August, underscoring the central bank’s reluctance to cut interest rates further and sending the local currency higher. The number of people employed increased by 121,000, led by a surge in part-time jobs, as the statistics bureau said a rota…
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Australian Employers Add Record Jobs as Currency Jumps: Economy
Barclays now sees a more protracted and significant slide in the EUR and has revised accordingly its EUR forecasts substantially lower over a 12-month horizon. “While our recent forecasts for EUR depreciation have proven accurate, the deterioration in the euro area economic and inflation outlo…
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Barclays Now Sees EUR/USD At 1.27 In 1-Month, 1.10 In 1-Year
On Monday, Andres Escobar, Colombia’s deputy finance minister, told reporters in Bogota that the country plans to impose a 2.25 percent annual wealth tax on fortunes greater than $4 million, with lower rates on all wealth above $385,000. The move was inspired by the work of the economist and…
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Colombia Can’t Pull Off Its Piketty Tax Alone. Just Ask Sweden
Wow. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says Australia’s economy added a monster 121,000 jobs in August – a massive print that has everyone bewildered. The market had been expecting 15,000 jobs added. The unemployment rate fell to 6.1%, from 6.4%. So there are now more than 11.7 million Au…
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Australia Just Posted A Crazy Jobs Gain Of 121,000 For August
My fellow Americans – tonight, I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL. As Commander-in-Chief, my highest priority is the security of the American people. Over the last several yea…
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China’s consumer inflation eased to a four-month low in August while factory-gate prices extended their decline to 30 months, adding room for government stimulus to support the economy amid a property slump. The consumer price index rose 2 percent from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Stati…
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China Inflation Stays Subdued as Producer Prices Extend Decline
German CPI is likely to stay at four-year low. An encouraging dip is expected in US initial jobless claims. The 10-year Treasury yield has been rising this month. Inflation, or the lack thereof, drives the macro agenda for Europe today with the August update on Germany’s consumer price index (a…
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3 Numbers: Worrying German CPI trend, US jobless, rising 10 year yield
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President Obama Addresses the Nation on ISIL
The expected inflation rate (30-per-cent trimmed mean measure), reported in the Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Inflationary Expectations, rose by 0.4 percentage points to 3.5 per cent in September from 3.1 per cent in August. In September, 78.1 per cent of respondents (excluding the ‘do…
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Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Inflationary Expectations rose in September
The RBNZ is still calling for a “significant depreciation” of the NZD… The high exchange rate continues to restrain growth in the traded sectors. The exchange rate has yet to adjust materially to the lower commodity prices. Its current level remains unjustified and unsustainable. We expect a f…
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Call for lower currency but more tightening to come has NZDUSD bouncing around
Headlines from Reuters, citing a U.K. Treasury source, said on Wednesday that Royal Bank of Scotland would move its headquarters from Edinburgh, Scotland to London in he case of a “Yes” vote on Scottish independence. …
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Royal Bank Of Scotland Would Move HQ To London If Scotland Votes ‘Yes’ On Independence
Even as the friendship between Shinzo Abe and Narendra Modi blossomed during the new Indian leader’s first foreign trip, Japan Inc refused to get misty-eyed, wary of the pitfalls of doing business on the sub-continent. A five-day tour that began with a bear hug and a day of sightseeing in Kyoto w…
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Japan Inc cautious on India despite Abe-Modi love-in
House prices in the UK moderated and buyer demand declined for second consecutive month, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey. House price momentum slowed to the same level it was a year ago and new buyer enquiries fell for the second consecutive month. Download the UK Res…
BREAKING: Obama to say US will use airstrikes to take out Islamic State fighters ‘wherever they exist’
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Obama to say US will use airstrikes to take out Islamic State fighters ‘wherever they exist’"
Interest-rate rises are looming even though official rates were kept at 3.5 per cent today, the Reserve Bank says. And the central bank is expecting the housing market to keep cooling down, despite strong net migration. The dollar remained too high and was expected to come do…
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New Zealand Reserve Bank holds interest rate
